Blood is a body fluid in humans and other animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells. Read some Less known Interesting and Surprising Facts about Blood.
Less known Interesting and Surprising Facts about Blood
- In 1667, a prominent French physician named Jean-Baptiste Denys performed the first documented blood transfusion to a human.
- The first blood bank was built in 1937.
- The amount of blood in the human body is 7% of the total weight. A drop of blood has 250 blood cells.
- 70% of the blood in our body is with Haemoglobin in red blood cell, 4% with myoglobin part of the muscle protein, 25% in liver, bone marrow, spleen and left kidney and the rest of the liquid fraction and 1% in blood plasma.
- Blood in our veins runs at a speed of 400 kilometres per hour and in a day it almost covers a distance of 96,500 km.
- In an emergency, coconut water can be transfused in the human body in place of blood plasma.
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- In humans, there are only four types of blood group which are “A, O, AB, B” but there are 13 types of blood groups in dogs and 11 types in the cat.
- Only the female mosquito sucks blood. Male mosquito is herbivorous and drinks sweet liquids. The female mosquito can suck blood 3 times more than its weight. Read more click here.
- Do you know 12 Lac mosquito can suck whole blood from your body and mosquito loves to suck the “O” blood group.
- A newborn baby has approximately 1 cup of blood in its entire body and there is 5 litre of blood in a young man.
- Octopus blood is of blue colour.
- Pregnant and breastfeeding women cannot donate blood.
- There is 0.2 mg of gold in our body and this gold is present in our blood.
- A person named James Harrison, donate blood 1,000 times in the last 60 years.
So, these are some Less known Interesting and Surprising Facts about Blood.