Statistics for The Human Body: True or False

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Question	Answer	% Correct
The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in their life	True	90%
During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.	True	78%
By age sixty you will have lost half your taste buds	True	73%
A full bladder is roughly the size of a softball	True	72%
Your brain uses up about 20% of all your body’s oxygen and calories	True	69%
Swallowed chewing gum takes seven years to digest	False	68%
Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born	True	62%
80% of your brain is water	True	62%
Your stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve razor blades	True	61%
You are about 1 cm shorter at night.	True	60%
Apart from identical twins every single person on Earth has a unique smell	True	59%
Women blink twice as much as men	True	58%
Your cornea is the only part of your body without a blood supply. It gets its oxygen directly from the air	True	56%
your feet have half a million sweat glands that produce over a pint of fluid everyday	True	49%
The acid in your stomach doesn’t eat through your body because the stomach cells are renewed faster than they are destroyed	True	48%
Fingernails and hair continue to grow after death	False	47%
The average life span of a human hair is 3-7 years	True	47%
A higher IQ is correlated with more dreams	True	45%
After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp	True	43%
Men get hiccups twice as much as women	True	43%
Most babies, of all races, are born with blue eyes	True	42%
Babies can only see black and white when they are born	True	41%
Most of your body heat escapes through your head	False	38%
You have five senses	False	30%
Some people are double-jointed	False	24%