1. One pint of donated blood can save upto 3 lives
2. A new-born baby has about one cup of blood in his/her body.
3. Someone needs blood every 2 seconds
4. It takes about 1,200,000 blood sucking mosquitoes to suck the blood completely from an adult
5. HP printer Black ink is more expensive than Blood
6. Male mosquitoes are vegetarian; only female mosquitoes are blood drinkers
7. There are about 100,000 miles of Blood-vessels in an average adult human
8. James Harrison donated blood over 1000 times and saved more than 2 million unborn babies from rhesus disease. His blood contains a rare antigen – anti-rhesus antigen
9. Human heart pumps about 1.5 million barrels of blood in the life time
10. Pregnant women have 50% more blood in their 20th week of pregnancy than they did before conceiving
11. A single RBC can make a complete circuit of out body in 20 seconds
12. In emergencies, coconut water can be used instead of plasma
13. Humans contains about 0.2mg of gold in the body, most of it in the blood
14. 7% of body weight is that of blood
15. The Bororo tribe of Brazil is one of those few rarest tribes, where every individual has the same blood group – ‘Blood group O’
16. Royalty, priests and scientists used to ingest, medicines made of blood and human bones for every infection and disease.
17. Weird bright colorless dots that we see floating towards the sky are OUR WBC
18. Spiders, lobsters and snails have blue blood as they have haemocyanin- a copper containing pigment.
By: Archa Dave
