Packing your house for a move is a boring task. But the sorting, cleaning, and organising is made better by the company of a good audiobook.
I’ve been making my way through Bill Bryson’s ‘Body: A Guide for Occupants’, and I’m learning random, impractical, but thoroughly interesting facts about our bodies.
Here are a few that have stood out.
Each of us are made up of 37 trillions cells. Alone, these cells don’t have much meaning. But when combined in exactly the right way, they make, well, us!
We’ll grow about 7.5 metres of hair in our lifetime. And we’ll secrete 36,000 litres of saliva, which is more than a litre per day!
We also get cancer everyday—with between 1-5 cells turning cancerous in a 24 hour period—but our body captures and kills them.
And scientists still don’t know why we cry, as there is no physical benefit to it.
This is a different read for me, but I’m glad im on the journey. I’ve certainly developed a new found appreciation for my wobbly, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, calcium, hydrogen, phosphorus home.