Dream a Little Dream …

— It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

— Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!

— Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn.

— Your hair grows faster in the morning than at any other time of day.

— The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!

— You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day.

— When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too.

— Unlike dogs, pigs, and some other mammals, humans cannot taste water. They taste only the chemicals and impurities in the water.

— There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.

— The most pushups ever performed in one day was 46,001.

— The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 ft.

— The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose.

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