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The Human Body Thursday, 25 June, 1998, 09:20 GMT 10:20 UK
The human body and its vital statistics
A baby in a highchair eating chocolate
The first taste in a lifetime of chocolate
Did you know that over the course of the average lifetime, we will:

  • Spend three and a half years eating

  • Work continuously for eight years

  • Spend 12 years watching TV

  • Kiss for two weeks

  • Shed 19 kilograms of dead skins

  • Have sex 2,580 times - with five different people

  • Fall in love twice

  • Have two children and four grandchildren

  • Live for 79 years (in the developed world)

  • Talk continuously for 12 years

  • Walk 22,000 kilometres

  • Eat 160 kilograms of chocolates

  • Produce 40,000 litres of urine and spend more than six months on the loo

  • Grow 28 metres of finger nails

  • Grow 950 kilometres of hair on the head and two metres up the nose

  • Produce 200 billion new red blood cells a day

  • Blink 415 million times

  • Eat 7,300 eggs
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