Body Facts

Sesame Street Presents: The Body

Fun Facts About The Body

1 ) The average person blinks 25 times per minute, which means that visitors to the exhibition will blink an average of between 1,500 and 2,250 times during their stay. 

2 ) The average preschooler takes 20-30 breaths per minute, which means that he or she will take more than 1,875 breaths while visiting Sesame Street Presents: The Body. 

3 ) There are 206 bones in an adult body, but a baby has more than 350.

4 ) The human body has 650 muscles.

5 ) The average adult’s blood circulates 1,500 times a day, which means that while you’re visiting this exhibition your blood will circulate more than 78 times. 

6 ) Ninety percent of all house dust is made up of dead skin.

7 ) The human body contains more than 60,000 miles of blood vessels, enough to circle the Earth nearly two and half times. 

8 ) The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid bone, a V-shaped bone found at the bottom of the tongue that supports the tongue and its muscles. 

9 ) The human brain is 85% water.

10 ) The feet contain 25% of all of the body’s bones.

11 ) It takes 17 muscles to smile, but 43 to frown.

TM / © 2009 Sesame Workshop.