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Thursday, 25 June, 1998, 09:20 GMT 10:20 UK
The human body and its vital statistics
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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