10 facts about Life and Water

LIFE is a gift and we should appreciate it every day.

But with life comes many interesting things we never have understood or will understand.

Take a look at these weird and wonderful facts:

Life

• Human life expectancy has increased more in the last 50 years than in the previous 200 000 years of human existence

• There are more life forms living on your skin than there are people on the planet

• In an average lifetime human skin completely replaces itself 900 times

• Most people can survive for up to two months without eating, but people can only live up to 11 days without sleeping

Water

• People in Africa and Asia have to walk an average of 6km to collect water

• An average swimming pool loses 3,785 litres a month to evaporation and other causes

• The average toilet uses 6 litres of clean water in a single flush

• Your bones are composed of 31% water

• 1% of the world’s water is drinkable

• Water itself does not conduct electricity well, but the impurities found in water do.

Source: Fact Slides

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