Stupid Facts - The Human Body

• The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.

• The skeleton of an average 160-pound body weighs about 29 pounds.

• By age 60, most people have lost half their taste buds.

• A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will (on average) lose two teeth every 10 years.

• 90 percent of the population has an "innie" belly button.

• The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.

• A fingernail or toenail takes about six months to a year to grow from base to tip.

• The human body has 70,000 miles of blood vessels.

• The thumbnail grows the slowest. The middle nail grows the fastest.

• The space between your eyebrows is called the glabella.

• The surface of the human skin is 21.5 square feet (2 m²).