| Amazing Facts about the |
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| Respiratory System |
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| The
right lung is slightly larger than the left. |
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| Hairs
in the nose help to clean the air we breathe as well as warming it. |
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| The
highest recorded "sneeze speed" is 165 km per hour. |
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surface area of the lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court. |
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capillaries in the lungs would extend 1,600 kilometres if placed end to end. |
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| We
lose half a litre of water a day through breathing. This is the water vapour |
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see when we breathe onto glass. |
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person at rest usually breathes between 12 and 15 times a minute. |
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breathing rate is faster in children and women than in men. |
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