20 MOST INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT BLOOD...
Blood is very important to all of us, but most of us know very little about it. Most of us probably don’t even know what type we are. Due to its importance in the bodies of both humans and animals, it is no wonder why it is so intricately made up. Below are some interesting facts that you probably didn’t know about one of the most important things in your life.
FACTS:-
2. Platelets, white blood cells and red blood cells are present in blood.
5. Blood plasma also consists of hormones, glucose, proteins, gases, electrolytes and nutrients.
9. Red blood cells consist of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is actually a protein that contains iron. Oxygen combines with this iron and gives the characteristic red color to our blood as well as hemoglobin.
15. Donated red blood cells cannot be stored for more than 42 days.
Blood is very important to all of us, but most of us know very little about it. Most of us probably don’t even know what type we are. Due to its importance in the bodies of both humans and animals, it is no wonder why it is so intricately made up. Below are some interesting facts that you probably didn’t know about one of the most important things in your life.
FACTS:-
1. Nearly 7% of the body weight of a human is made up of blood.
2. Platelets, white blood cells and red blood cells are present in blood.
3. Blood consists of a yellow liquid which is known as blood plasma.
4. Blood plasma is primarily made up of water. 90% of blood plasma is water.
5. Blood plasma also consists of hormones, glucose, proteins, gases, electrolytes and nutrients.
6. Platelets, white blood cells and red blood cells are all found floating in blood plasma.
7. Blood plasma can be separated using centrifuge device which spins blood at a very high speed. The cells then get collected at the bottom of the tube, separating blood plasma from the cells.
8. Only the red blood cells in our blood are responsible for carrying oxygen.
9. Red blood cells consist of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is actually a protein that contains iron. Oxygen combines with this iron and gives the characteristic red color to our blood as well as hemoglobin.
10. An adult body has 100,000 kilometers or 60,000 miles of blood vessels running throughout the body.
11. The average volume of blood present in an adult male body is 5.6 liters while an adult female body contains 4.5 liters of blood on an average.
12. A new born baby will have around 1 cup of blood in its body.
13. Red blood cells survive in circulatory system for no more than 120 days.
14. Platelets, plasma and red blood cells are constantly produced by bone marrow.
15. Donated red blood cells cannot be stored for more than 42 days.
16. Donated platelets cannot be stored for more than 5 days.
17. Donated blood plasma can be stored for 1 year in frozen condition.
18. Mosquitos prefer type O blood to the rest, but aren’t picky in a pinch and only the female mosquitos drink it. It would take over a million of them simultaneously sucking in order to drain a human of all their blood.
19. One of the interesting things that you will find in the trunk of the President of the Unites State’s vehicle is a blood bank that contains his blood type. Nothing is left to chance in the case of an emergency in this case.
20. Over the course of your lifetime, your heart will pump enough blood to fill two hundred entire train cars full of blood. This is equivalent to approximately one and a half million barrels of blood that is produced from one person.
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