APPLE Think Different........................

Technical innovation paired with minimalistic designs and creative advertisements, as well as the leadership of Steve Jobs, have made Apple one of the most valuable brands in the world. The company’s success translates into strong brand loyalty, as well as into an unparalleled revenue growth.

The company was first founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in 1976 in the garage of Jobs’ parents. Their first product, known as the Apple I, consisted of an assembled circuit board without many of the present-day features of a computer, such as display, keyboard or mouse. The company started to slowly grow with the development of Apple II, Apple III, Apple Lisa and the first Macintosh, launched in 1984. 

After a rather uneventful period, the company resurfaced in the late 1990's with a number of strategic and technological changes: in 1997, Apple introduced the Apple Online Store, followed by the iMac and the video editing program Final Cut Pro in 1998. The iPod was launched in 2001, which marked the company’s first venture away from computers and into other segments of consumer electronics. With several hundred million units sold, the iPod was a tremendous success. Its popularity however started to decline in 2008, as advanced music functions of smart phones began to substitute MP3 players. Apple’s digital media store, the iTunes Store, was launched in 2003 and became one of the most popular online music stores in the world, generating several billion U.S. dollars in revenue per quarter. 

In 2007, the release of the iPhone marked a revolution for the global smartphone market, due to the introduction of the first touch screen interface. In the United States especially, the iPhone has been a key product for the company, generating millions of unit sales and high levels of revenue. The iPhone, already in its eighth generation in 2014, is regularly contributing more than 50 percent to the company’s total revenue. In total, Apple has sold more than 500 million iPhone's from 2007 to 2014 worldwide. 

In January 2010, the iPad was unveiled, marking yet another milestone in the industry. The device went on to sell more than 3 million units in the first 3 months, thus setting a new benchmark in the industry. With the launch of its Apple Watch in early 2015, Apple entered the growing wearable's market, competing with companies such as Samsung, Pebble and Fit-bit. 

As of 2013, Apple’s market capitalization reached 450 billion U.S. dollars, considerably higher than that of competitors such as Microsoft, IBM and Google, as well as almost ten times more than its own capitalization in 2006. The company’s market cap reached a record 700 billion U.S. dollars in 2014 and is expected to exceed one trillion U.S. dollars in the future. 

KEY DATES

1976:With $1,300, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, Inc.

1980:Apple converts to public ownership.

1982:Apple becomes the first personal computer company to reach $1 billion in annual sales.

1985:John Sculley assumes the helm after a management shakeup that causes the departure of Jobs and several other Apple executives.

1991: PowerBook line of notebook computers is released.

1994:Power Macintosh line is released.

1996:Acquisition of NeXT brings Steve Jobs back to Apple as a special adviser.

1997:Steve Jobs is named interim chief executive officer.

1998:The all-in-one iMac is released.

2000:Jobs, firmly in command as CEO, oversees a leaner, more tightly focused Apple.

2001:The iPod is released; Apple opens its first retail store in Virginia.

2003:Apple opens its first store in Japan.

2005:The release of a video iPod, the fifth generation of the device, pushes total iPod unit sales to 30 million.

Facts of Apple Inc. and Mac

1. Apple was founded as a partnership on April Fool’s Day 1976 by three people who originally worked at Atari: Steven Gary Wozniak (1950- ), Steven Paul Jobs (1955-2011), and Ronald Gerald Wayne (1934- ). Apple was incorporated on January 3, 1977, without Wayne, who sold his shares back for $800. Wayne wrote the Apple I manual, drafted the partnership agreement, and drew the first Apple logo.
   
2. To raise capital for their new company, Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen van and Steve Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator for $500.
3. Steve Wozniak credits entrepreneur and investor Mike Markkula (1942- ) for the success of Apple. He provided initial funding and managerial support, and he served as chairman for Apple from 1985 to 1997. He wrote several early software programs for the Apple II and freely distributed them under the alias “Johnny Appleseed.”
4. This one is pretty evident. Apple Inc has more money than the US Government. 
5. For the first 30 years, Apple was called Apple Computer, Inc. On January 9, 2007, it removed the word “Computer” to reflect its expanding electronic market.
6. Steve Jobs set the list price of the original 4K Apple 1 at $666.66 ($2,572 in 2011 dollars), doubling the cost of manufacturing. Fundamentalist Christians were quick to complain that 666 was the “mark of the beast.”
7. For all the smokers with Macs, smoking near an Apple computer can void its warranty. 
8. Apple’s first computer, the Apple 1 (1976), did not include a keyboard, monitor, or case and was basically an assembled circuit board. The Apple II was introduced on April 16, 1977, and has been widely credited with popularizing the home computer. 
9. In 2010, Apple surpassed Microsoft to become the most valuable technology company in the world. In 2010, Apple was valued at $222.12 billion, while Microsoft was valued at $219.18 billion. In August 2011, Apple pushed past Exxon as the most valuable public company in the world. 
   
10. In July 2011, the U.S. Treasury had an operating cash balance of $73.7 billion. Apple, however, reported its reserves higher than the government, at $76.4 billion. While the U.S. is spending around $200 billion more than it collects in revenue every month, Apple, on the other hand, is making money.
11. Ronald Wayne, one of the original founders of Apple Inc., designed the first logo for Apple, which was a pen-and-ink drawing of Sir Isaac Newton leaning against an apple tree with a portion of a William Wordsworth poem: “Newton . . . . A mind forever voyaging though strange seas of thought . . . alone.” Jobs thought the logo was “too cerebral” and a single apple was chosen with a bite (byte), partly to prevent it from looking like a cherry tomato.
12. Jean-Louise Gassee (1944- ), former executive of Apple Computer, suggested that the Apple logo is a symbol of lust and knowledge, “bitten into, all crossed with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn’t dream of a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope, and anarchy.” In 1997, Jobs replaced the rainbow color of the apple logo with solid white. 
    
13. Apple generated approximately $625 of revenue from each of the 40 million iPhones it sold in 2009. It generated $164 of revenue for every iPod sold, $1,279 for every Mac, and $665 for every iPad.
14. Most of Apple’s annual revenue (approximately $65 billion) is generated from the products Apple has invented during the last 10 years, such as iPods, iPhones, iPads, and iTunes. Almost half of its annual revenue, or $30 billion, comes from products invented in the past 4 years.
15. At the time, Apple’s initial public offering on December 12, 1980, was the largest IPO since the Ford Motor Company went public in 1956. It sold out in minutes. Apples shares rose 32%, making 40 Apple employees instant millionaires. 
16. iTunes, Apple’s online music, video, and app store, generated sales of $4 billion in 2010. That’s over $1 billion more than one of the world’s largest music companies, Warner Music Group.
17. In 1983, Apple entered the Fortune 500 at #411 after being in existence for only five years, making it the fastest growing company in history. 
18. Apple has more than 92,000 employees. 
19. Apple stores each sell an average of $93,150 worth of products every day, which is equivalent to $3,900 an hour or $65 a minute every day of the year. 
20. In 2009, Apple sold 40 million iPhones. That’s 4,583 sold per hour, 76 per minute, or 1.27 per second. The iPhone is sold in 89 countries. 
21. It's called Apple because Steve Jobs loved the fruit 
22. In 1989, the Macintosh Portable became Apple’s first “portable” Mac computer.
23. In 1984, the Macintosh was introduced by the famous “1984” commercial, which showed a young, female rebel (Apple) striking a blow against corporate “Big Brother” (presumably IBM).
24. Today, twice as much revenue is generated from Apple’s hand-held devices and music than from Apple computers.
    
25. In 2010, a British newspaper reported sweatshop conditions at an iPod factory in China. Apple also admitted to using child labor. 
26. Environmentalists have criticized Apple for not providing a full-fledged computer recycling program, unlike its competitors. 
27. The time on iPhone photos is the time it was announced 
28. Apple Corp, the Beatles’ record company, has repeatedly taken Apple Computer to court over trademark infringement. The first time was in 1978, shortly after Apple Computer was founded in 1976. The parties settled in 1981, on the contingency that Apple Computer would never enter the music industry. However, Apple Corp again took the computer giant to court in 1989 when Apple Computer introduced computers capable of music playback, and then again in 2003 after the iPod and iTunes hit the market in 2001 and 2002, respectively. The companies ultimately reached an agreement concerning the use of the word “Apple” in 2007.
29. iPhone's account for 39% of Apple’s overall revenue.
30. Steve Wozniak (a.k.a. “Woz” and the “Wizard of Woz”) designed and built the first Apple computers. Even though he left Apple in 1985 to start his own company, he is still on the payroll of Apple and sometimes represents the company at events. According to Wozniak, “Steve [Jobs] didn’t know very much about electronics.”
    
31. On November 22, 1985, Apple signed an agreement to let Bill Gates use Mac GUI (graphical user interface) technology in Windows 1.0 if Microsoft continued to produce products for the Mac. However, when Windows 2 showed features of Mac technology, Apple sued. The lawsuit was decided in Microsoft's favor on August 24, 1993.
32. Climate Counts, a nonprofit organization that ranks companies for climate-conscious consumers, ranked Apple last among electronic firms. Greenpeace criticized Apple in 2008 for failing to phase out hazardous material such as chlorinated plastic polyvinal chloride and brominated flame retardant in the iPhone. 
33. Apple makes their employees work on fake projects until they can be trusted. This may sound bizarre but the people at Apple Inc. take their product privacy very very seriously. 
34. In 2010, Apple annual sales were $65.23 billion. If Apple were a country, it would rank as the world’s 68th biggest country. 
35. In March 2010, Forbes reported that Apple was the most admired company in the world. Hewlett-Packard and EMC round out the top three. 
36. Apple has a team of carpenters ready to build walls around employee's desks 
37. There were 250 million iPods, 43 million iPhones, and 32 million iPod touches (a.k.a. iTouches) sold as of March 22, 2010. 
38. Apple’s largest retail store is on Regent Street in London, boasting 25,000 square feet. The smallest Apple store, at just 540 square feet, is at Santa Rosa Plaza in California. 
39. Getting a job at an Apple store can be extremely selective. In 2009, Apple reported that 10,000 people submitted applications at its new store on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Of those, just 200 got jobs, for a 2% acceptance rate.
40. While Microsoft spent $8.7 billion on research development in 2009, Apple spent only $1.7 billion. Additionally, Apple spent $5.5 billion on sales, marketing, and general and administrative expenses in 2009, while Microsoft spent $17 billion. Despite spending more money, however, Microsoft had smaller sales and vastly slower growth. 
41. In December 1982, Apple became the first personal computer company to reach $1 billion in annual sales. To celebrate, it threw a Billion Dollar Party for employees. 
42. Londoner Jonathan Ive (1967- ) designed the iMac, the iPod, and the iPhone. In 1999, he was named as one of the world’s top 100 inventors under the age of 35.
43. The first graphical image ever displayed on a Mac prototype was a picture of Scrooge McDuck playing the fiddle while sitting on some money bags. 
44. In the movie Courage Under Fire, Denzel Washington’s character uses a PowerBook 5300 several times. The movie takes place right after the Gulf War in 1991, but the PowerBook 5300 wasn’t released until August 1995. The only Mac “laptop” available in 1991 was the Mac Portable, a 15.8 pound giant which would have been difficult to carry around, especially in a war zone. 
45. On August 28, 1991, the first true email message from space was sent by the crew of the space shuttle STS-43 Atlantis using a Mac Portable and specifically configured AppleLink software.
46. Apple’s name recognition was so low in Japan in the early 1980s that refrigerated trucks were used to deliver shipments of Apple computers because workers thought that the boxes contained perishable fruit.
47. Due to legal concerns and Carl Sagan’s protest, the code name for the Power Macintosh 7100/66 was changed from “Carl Sagan” to “BHA” in 1993. However, when Sagan learned that BHA supposedly stood for Butt-Head Astronomer, he asked Apple’s engineers to change the name again. They settled on LAW, which stands for Lawyers Are Wimps. 
48. In 1994, singer/songwriter Bob Dylan sued Apple for trademark infringement when Apple decided to name a product “Dylan,” which stood for “dynamic language.” Ironically, critics have noted that Bob Dylan was actually born as Robert Zimmerman and adopted the first name of the early 20th-century Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in August 1962. 
49. In 1985, Jobs lost a power struggle with the board of directors at Apple and left the company. He founded a computer platform, NeXT, that same year. In 1996, a floundering Apple bought NeXT and brought Jobs back to the company. Much of the OS X operating system is built on NeXT technology. Additionally, once Jobs returned, he pulled Apple from the brink of bankruptcy, tripled annual sales, doubled Mac’s market share, and increased Apple’s stock 1,300%.
50. After Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985, Apple Computers struggled to survive falling market shares and inefficient leadership. In fact, Apple was named the worst run company of 1996 by investment giant CalPERS (California Public Employees’ Retirement System). 
51. Bill Gates is one of the reasons Apple exists today! 
52. Though the concept of a GUI (graphical user interface) was initially developed by Xerox, Apple was the first company to mass market GUI-based computers. While Apple’s first GUI-based computer, Lisa, was a commercial failure, the Macintosh released a year later was a success. Before GUI, computers were controlled by complicated key combinations and typed commands.
53. In early 1987, Ross Perot invested $20 million in NeXT. However, he resigned from the company’s board of directors and sold most of his shares before Apple bought NeXT and Steve Jobs returned to his company. 
54. The name “Macintosh” is based on the name of an apple cultivar, the McIntosh. 
55. The most expensive Apple store is on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and is estimated to have cost $10 million to build. It is also said to be one of the most photographed retail landmarks in the world. 
56. Apple Inc.’s founder, Steve Jobs, is a college dropout. He dropped out of Reed College in 1972, after attending only one semester. 
57. Techeblog reports that the Macbook Air Platinum is the most expensive Mac laptop ever, at a whopping $486,616. Its unibody enclosure is made from solid platinum. The MacBook Air Platinum is limited to just 5 units. 
58. In Sex and the City 2, Carrie Bradshaw continues to use her beloved Mac computer, but the movie also prominently features Hewlett-Packard PCs, powered by Windows. Coincidentally, Apple never pays for product placement, though it will donate products to a set. 
59. In early 2015, Apple became the first ever $700 billion company. More recently, Apple overtook Google as the most valuable brand in the world. 
60. You might think of them only as fierce competitors, but Apple and Samsung have a different sort of relationship. Samsung actually manufactures the retina display on the Apple iPad and a portion of the memory chips used in the iPhone 6 (though Apple has cut back on its reliance on Samsung).
61. In June 2014, a seven-for-one stock split took the trading price of Apple from approximately $645 to $94. 
62. One of the original Apple computers sold for more than $387,000 in 2013. 
63. Apple’s initial public offering was made on December 12, 1980. The company sold 4.6 million shares at a cost of $22 per share. 
64. Apple used the capital from its initial public offering for the development of the Macintosh and Lisa. 
65. The iPhone was almost named something else, with the company considering names such as Mobi, Telepod, and Tripod. The name “iPad” was also considered for its smartphone. 
66. China is currently Apple’s second biggest market, trailing only the United States. Revenue in China grew to nearly $17 billion in the second quarter of 2015. 
67. Despite the fact that he was the founder of the company, Steve Jobs was fired from Apple in 1985 at the tender age of 30. 
68. Apple cracked into the Fortune 500 in 1983, a spot it has held onto ever since. 
69. Apple is pretty secretive. The company is said to have created fake projects for employees and management to work on. If the news leaks, you can hit the road. They’ll know exactly who spilled the beans. 
70. It cost $666.66 to build the first Apple computer. Despite the many conspiracy theories, it has not been proven that anybody at Apple worshipped the devil during production. 
71. Fake Apple retail stores have been opened (and shut down) in many parts of China. In Kunming, for example, these stores appeared so authentic that even employees were duped. 
72. Apple CEO Tim Cook earned $9 million in 2014. A large number, for sure, but not when you consider that Apple is the most valuable company in the world. 
73. The original Apple logo was designed by co-founder Ronald Wayne, who worked at Atari along with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, and is nothing like the one the company uses today. 
74. At one point, Apple did not have the option to market its iPhone in Brazil, as another company owned the trademark. IGM Electronics, a telecommunications company, was the thorn in Apple’s side until the iPhone maker won a trademark case in the country. 
75. Ronald Wayne, the forgotten Apple co-founder, sold his shares in the company in 1977 for $800. While he only owned 10 percent of the company at the time, in today’s world this would be worth tens of billions of dollars. He has noted that he does not regret this decision. 
76. Apple finished 2014 with $178 billion in marketable securities and cash. Even so, CEO Tim Cook is persistent in saying the company doesn’t want a cash hoard. 60. The revenue generated by Apple is more than the GDP of many countries, including Ecuador, Libya, and Iraq (among hundreds of others). 
77. Apple’s profit for every iPhone 6 Plus sold is approximately $85 more than its smaller counterpart. 
78. In 2005, there were 116 Apple retail stores scattered throughout the world, with the largest number in the United States. This total reached 317 by 2010 and 437 by 2014. The number of Apple stores has increased each year since 2005. Want to go work at one? Good luck–you have a better chance of getting into Harvard . 
79. Apple headquarters' employees earn an average of US$125,000 a year. 
80. Apple's co-founder sold all his shares for $800.Today, they would have been worth US$35 billion. 
81. Apple earn’s US$300,000 per minute 
82. Apple sold 340,000 iphone's per day in 2012 
83. Everything you say to Siri is sent to Apple, analyzed and stored 
84. Apple’s Iphone is almost twice more expensive in Brazil than in the U.S

UNKNOWN FACTS OF HUMAN BODY

236 FACTS OF HUMAN BODY

1. The average red blood cell lives for 120 days.
2. There are 2.5 trillion (give or take) of red blood cells in your body at any moment. To maintain this number, about two and a half million new ones need to be produced every second by your bone marrow.That's like a new population of the city of Toronto every second.
3. Considering all the tissues and cells in your body, 25 million new cells are being produced each second. That's a little less than the population of Canada - every second !
4. A red blood cell can circumnavigate your body in under 20 seconds.
5. Nerve Impulses travel at over 400 km/hr (249 mi/hr).
6. A sneeze generates a wind of 166 km/hr (100 mi/hr), and a cough moves out at 100 km/hr (60 mi/hr).
7. Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day or about 30 million times in a year.
8. Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey per day.
9. Our eyes can distinguish up to ten million colour surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
10. Our lungs inhale over two million liters of air every day, without even thinking. Their surface area is large enough to cover one side of a tennis court.
11. We give birth to over 200 billion red cells every day
12. When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph
13. We exercise at least 36 muscles when we smile.
14. We are about 70 percent water.
15. We make around 1 to 1.6 litres of saliva a day.
16. Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.
17. In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings,36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
18. We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, manganese, phosphates, nickel and silicon in our bodies.
19. It is believed that the main purpose of eyebrows is to keep sweat out of the eyes.
20. A person can expect to breathe in about 45 pounds of dust over his/her lifetime 
21. 21.There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.
22. From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
23. Your body contains enough iron to make a spike strong enough to hold your weight.
24. The surface area of a human lung is equal to that of a tennis court.
25. Most people have lost fifty per cent of their taste buds by the time they reach the age of sixty.
26. The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9,000 'lead' pencils.
27. One square inch of human skin contains 625 sweat glands.
28. When you blush, your stomach lining also reddens.
29. The human body has less muscles in it than a caterpillar.
30. If you could save all the times your eyes blink in one life time and use them all at once you would see blackness for 1.2 years!
31. The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
32. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
33. Give a tennis ball a good, hard squeeze. You're using about the same amount of force your heart uses to pump blood out to the body.
34. The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose.
35. Capillaries, on the other hand, are so small that it takes ten of them to equal the thickness of a human hair.
36. Your body has about 5.6 liters (6 quarts) of blood. This 5.6 liters of blood circulates through the body three times every minute.
37. The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime - that's enough to fill 2 oil super tankers!
38. Babies start dreaming even before they're born.
39. Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
40. 10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria. 
41. There is more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of the United States and Canada combined .
42. Very square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
43. Fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months
44. You sit on the biggest muscle in your body, the gluteus maximus a.k.a. the butt. Each of the two cheeky muscles tips the scales at about two pounds (not including the overlying fat layer).
45. The tiniest muscle, the stapedius of the middle ear , is just one-fifth of an inch long.
46. The average human head weighs about 10 pounds.
47. The average human brain weighs about 3 pounds.
48. The DNA helix measures 80 billionths of an inch wide.
49. Your eyeballs are three and a half percent salt.
50. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
51. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
52. An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
53. Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
54. Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.
55. It only takes 7 pounds of pressure to rip your ear off.
56. Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
57. You burn more calories while sleeping than you do when watching television.
58. Our eyes never grow, and our nose and ears never stop growing
59. The thumbnail grows the slowest; the middle nail grows the fastest
60. Children grow faster in the springtime.
61. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
62. You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
63. People are the only animals in the world who cry tears.
64. In your very own lifetime, you'll produce enough spit to fill two swimming pools.
65. You breathe in about 7 quarts of air every minute. We breathe 13 pints of air every minute.
66. Your dad sweats enough each day to fill up a 6 pack of soda cans...and then some.
67. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
68. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
69. If you toot consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
70. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps blood, that it could squirt blood 30 feet.
71. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
72. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
73. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
74. Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
75. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
76. If you blink one eye you move over 200 muscles.
77. The length of your foot is the same as that of your forearm between your wrist and the inside of your elbow.
78. In 24 hours, the blood in the body travels a total of 12,000 miles - that's four times the width of North America.
79. The human gut contains about 1kg (2.2 lbs) of bacteria. In fact, there are more bacteria growing in and on the body than there are human cells.
80. Humans have more facial muscles than any other animal on earth - 22 on each side of the face.
81. Before their first birthday, average babies will have dribbled 255 pints of saliva. By the time they're two years old, they will have crawled 93 miles.
82. The human hand contains three main nerves, two major arteries and 27 different bones - more of the body is devoted to controlling the hands than any other part of the body.
83. In the average lifetime, we spend five years eating and we consume around 7,000 times our own weight in food.
84. When we go to sleep and enter REM (Rapid Eye Movement),our bodies become completely paralyzed as areas of the brain that control movement are de-activated. It is this that stops us falling out of bed.
85. By the time a woman has reached her 60s, she will have released around 450 baby making eggs
86. When full, the human bladder can hold two pints of urine.
87. In a lifetime, a human being will grow six feet of nose hair and shed 42 lbs of dead skin.
88. A human being can look forward to having sex an average of 2,580 times with five different partners.
89. Skin can now be artificially grown.One amazing result of this is that the skin from one hand could be grown into enough to cover six football pitches.
90. There are 137 million light sensitive cells in the eye's retina and the fluid that fills the eye is changed 15 times a day.
91. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
92. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
93. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
94. In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow!
95. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
96. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realises it's there.
97. At birth we have over 300 bones. As we grow up, some of the bones begin to fuse together as a result an adult has only 206 bones.
98. The femur/thigh bone is the longest bone in our body, it is about a quarter of ones height.
99. The human body has 230 movable and semi- movable joints
100. Our Brain has over 100 billion nerve cells.
101. A newborn babys brain grows almost 3 times during their first year of life.
102. The left side of human brain controls the right side of the body and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body.
103. The length of human blood vessel is such that it circles the globe 2 ½ times.
104. The human heart beats 30 million times a year.
105. 80 hairs are likely to fall every day.
106. Uncooked food digests two times faster than cooked food.
107. Water is the major source of energy than food.
108. Heart circulates blood in your body about 1000 times each day.
109. Men lose about 40 hairs in a day and women lose 70 hairs in a day. 
110. Your blood has same amount of salts in it as an ocean has. 
111. There are 500 hairs in an eyebrow. 
112. The average human body contains approximately 100 billion nerve cells.
113. You are taller in the morning than you are at night. 
114. Bones are 4 times stronger than concrete. 
115. Average life span of a taste bud is only 10 days.
116. You are born without knee caps and they don’t appear until age of 2 to 6 years. 
117. Children grow faster in springtime 
118. Eyes stay the same size throughout life but nose and ears never stop growing. 
119. We born with 300 bones but end up with 206 bones when we are adult. 
120. Human skull is made up of 26 different bones. 
121. Hair is made of same substance as fingernails.
122. Our entire body functions stop when we sneeze, even your heart beat. 
123. Tongue is the strongest muscle in human body. 
124. Typical person goes to bathroom six times a day. 
125. Food takes 7 seconds to reach stomach from mouth. 
126. Children have more taste buds than adults. 
127. Sneeze blows air out of nose at the speed of 100 miles per hour. 
128. Largest muscle in your body is one on which you are sitting on. 
129. Smallest bone of body is in ears.
130. Human body needs natural Sodium not Sodium Chloride, salt.  
131. If your skin is burning in sun light your body water index is low. .  
132. Eyelashes last about 150 days.
133. After clearing salt and oil from the human body, all other organs rejuvenate with liver. 
134. Diabetes is hereditary not because of zeans, but because our food habits.
135. Salt food is the major cause of many diseases including diabetes. 
136. Adults, above 11 yrs, should not use more than 1500 mg sodium 0.75 teaspoon, a day. 
137. Salt is the main cause of swelling, fluid retention, infections in the lungs and kidneys. 
138. After seven years human being can not digest even his own mother's milk.  
139. Human taste buds would be replaced every fortnight. 
140. All animal fat including milk will thicken our blood vessels 
141. Human body requires natural Sodium not the Sodium Chloride we consume. 
142. The muscles of the eye move more than 100,000 times a day.
143. We breathe 13 pints of air every minute.
144. Human skin has a tendency to shed 40 pounds of skin in lifetime.
145. Human kidneys have about 1 million nephrons that filters out liquids and wastes.
146. Fingernails contain keratin and they seem to be strongest component in the human body.
147. The human skin contains 45 miles of nerves.
148. Most people blink about 25 times per minute.
149. For every 2 weeks, the human stomach produces new layer of mucous lining, otherwise the stomach will digest itself.
150. Every person has a unique tongue print.
151. The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal and repair by its own.
152. In one square inch of skin there are 4 yards of nerve fibers.
153. The human ear can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different sounds.
154. On an average the human scalp has about 100,000 hairs.
155. Nails of toes or fingers take about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
156. A square inch of skin consists of 1300 nerve cells.
157. The adult human brain is about 2 % of total body weight.
158. On an average 1.7 liters of saliva produces each day.
159. In one square inch of skin, there are 3 million cells.
160. The human body consists of over 600 muscles.
161. As we get older, the brain loses almost one gram per year.
162. Esophagus/or food pipe, which is the passage for the food we eat to the stomach, is approximately 25 cm long.
163. A square inch of skin consists of three yards of blood vessel.
164. There are about 13, 500,00 neurons in the human spinal cord.
165. The human tongue has 10,000 taste buds.
166. The cells of taste buds are constantly being renewed, roughly on every ten hours.
167. An average human head weighs about 8 pounds.
168. The human eyeball is 24.5 mm long.
169. Taste buds are present inside the mouth and also at the roof of the mouth.
170. The human spinal cord is 45 cm long in men and 43 cm long in women.
171. The weight of human cerebellum is 150g.
172. The strongest muscles of the human body are masseters, which are present on either side of the mouth.
173. The human liver performs 500 different functions.
174. The heart muscles will stop working only when we die.
175. Children have more sensitive ears than adults.
176. Shivering is a way of trying to keep our body warm.
177. Humans have the ability to distinguish 4,000 to 10, 000 smells.
178. Every hour, the human eye can process 36,000 bits of information.
179. Nails and corneas are the only two tissues in the body that do not receive oxygen from blood.
180. The length of the finger indicates how fast the nail grows. The nail of the middle finger grows faster than others.
181. The human ears can hear in the frequency of 1,000 to 50, 000 hertz.
182. The total surface area of the human brain is about 25, 000 square cms.
183. Sound that is above 130 decibels can cause pain to our ears.
184. There are around 100 receptors in each of our fingertips.
185. The weight of skin in a human adult is 8 to 10 pounds.
186. The middle part of the back is the least sensitive part of our body.
187. Children have better sense of smell than adults.
188. The eyelashes shed by a human in his entire life is of 30 m of length.
189. After death, the body starts to dry out creating an illusion that the nails and hairs are growing even after death
190. The base of the spinal cord has a cluster of nerves, which are most sensitive.
191. Platelets, which are one of the constituents of the blood are produced at the rate of one hundred billion per day.
192. The sense of taste is the weakest of the five senses.
193. Humans have the ability to differentiate about 10, 000 odor.
194. It takes time for the newborn baby to learn to turn the pictures right side up, as it sees the world upside down in the beginning.
195. If human sense of smell is affected, sense of taste is also affected as the brain interprets signals from the nose and tongue.
196. There are around 1,200,000 optic fibers in the human eye.
197. The lens of the human eye is composed of 65 % of water and 3 % of protein.
198. We shut our eyes for 0.3 seconds, when we blink.
199. Eyes are the only part of the human body that functions at 100 percent ability at any movement.
200. A drop of blood contains 250 million cells.
201. The liver is the largest and heaviest internal organ of the body and weighs about 1.6 kilos.
202. In the womb, the baby's body is covered by a thin layer of hair but as soon as the baby is born it disappears.
203. Babies crawl to an average of 200 m a day.
204. The only joint less bone in the human body is the hyoid bone, which is present in the throat area.
205. Eating Break fast helps to burn 5 to 20 percent of calories throughout the day.
206. The surface of human tongue is covered with 100 of tiny structures called papillae.
207. On an average, a persons left hand does 56 % of typing.
208. A person can live without food for about a month, but only a week without water.
209. Threshold pain of women is 9 times stronger than men.
210. The palms of the hands and soles of the feet contain more sweat glands than other parts of the body.
211. 10 % of men and 8 % of women are left-handed.
212. An average human body contains enough amount of fat to make seven bars of soap.
213. The human body releases growth hormones during sleep.
214. Red blood cells are about seven micrometer in diameter.
215. The thighbone is so strong that it withstands the axial load of about 1600-1800 kilos.
216. An average adult male brain weighs about 1375 grams.
217. On an average the weight of an adult female brain is about 1275 grams.
218. Only four percent of the brains cells work and the remaining cells are kept in reserve.
219. The human eye has 110-130 million receptors to perceive light.
220. The human eye contains five to seven million receptors for color perception.
221. The human eye cannot perceive a motionless image.
222. The average life span of a sperm is about 36 hours.
223. The life span of an ovule is about 12 - 24 hours.
224. Only one person in two billion will live for more than 115 years of life.
225. On an average, we speak about 5,000 words per day.
226. Liver is the only organ of the body, which regenerates itself completely even after being removed completely.
227. The human heart pumps 6,000 liters of blood daily through a man lifetime.
228. The human brain is capable of creating more ideas equivalent to that of the atoms of the universe.
229. Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body, the next being bone marrow.
230. On an average, in an adult scalp 35m of hair fiber is produced every day.
231. The maximum length of hair can be 70 to 90 cms.
232. The life span of hair is two to seven years.
233. Frequent washing of hair does not cause hair loss.
234. Brain uses 20 % of our body energy and makes up only 2 % of our body weight.
235. Any damage to brain cells cannot be repaired completely.
236. Human brain stops growing at the age of 18.

Five Things that will happen after your death....

Nature isn't kind to the human body after death. Thankfully, the days of natural decomposition have been replaced by decidedly modern rituals of death. We can choose to delay the decomposition process by being embalmed, where our bodily fluids are replaced with preservatives. Or we can be cremated, where we are cooked at temperatures as high as 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit for several hours while we turn to ash.

While our modern disposal rituals might not sound appealing, the process of nature composting us back into the Earth is even less so. Even earliest man knew how to put some distance between himself and his decomposing dead. In 2003, archaeologists  found evidence of ancient humans who had buried their dead in northern Spain about 350,000 years ago.

So what happens during decomposition? Here are five weird ways our bodies deconstruct after death.

Your cells burst open. The process in which the human body decomposes starts just minutes after death. When the heart stops beating, we experience algor mortis, or the “death chill,” when the temperature of the body falls about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit an hour until it reaches room temperature. Almost immediately, the blood becomes more acidic as carbon dioxide builds up. This causes cells to split open, emptying enzymes into the tissues, which start to digest themselves from within.

You turn white — and purple. Gravity makes its mark on the human body in the first moments after death. While the rest of your body turns deathly pale, heavy red blood cells move to the parts of your body that are closest to the ground. This is because circulation has stopped. The results are purple splotches over your lower parts known as livor mortis. In fact, it is by studying the markings of livor mortis that the coroner can tell exactly what time you died.

Calcium makes your muscles contract. We've all heard of rigor mortis, in which a dead body becomes stiff and hard to move. Rigor mortis generally sets in about three to four hours after death, peaks at 12 hours, and dissipates after 48 hours. Why does it happen? There are pumps in the membranes of our muscle cells that regulate calcium. When the pumps stop working in death, calcium floods the cells, causing the muscles to contract and stiffen. Thus, there is rigor mortis.

Your organs will digest themselves. Putrefaction, or when our bodies start to look like extras in a zombie movie, follows rigor mortis. This phase is delayed by the embalming process, but eventually the body will succumb. Enzymes in the pancreas make the organ begin to digest itself. Microbes will tag-team these enzymes, turning the body green from the belly onwards. As Caroline Williams writes in NewScientist, “the main beneficiaries are among the 100 trillion bacteria that have spent their lives living in harmony with us in our guts.” As this bacterium breaks us down, it releases putrescine and cadaverine, which are the compounds which make the human body smell in death.

You may be covered in a wax. After putrefaction, decay moves quickly to turn the body into a skeleton. However, some bodies take an interesting turn on the way. If a body comes into contact with cold soil or water, it may develop adipocere, a fatty, waxy material formed from the bacteria breaking down tissue. Adipocere works as a natural preservative on the inner organs. It can mislead investigators into thinking a body died much sooner than it actually did, as was the case of a 300-year-old adipocere corpse recently found in Switzerland.

In the end, we all return to the Earth: it’s just a matter of how. But whether it’s by composting or the fires of cremation, we all turn to dust and ash — and in some cases, wax.