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Fascinating Lungs

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Lungs play an eminent role in transporting oxygen from the intake of air. These lungs have multiple air sacs to inhale and exhale the air.

Some of the fascinating facts about your lungs are:

If a lung is roll out, then its size gets elaborated to the size of a tennis court.

We can live with one lung, even it reduces the physical ability, and we remain alive.

An average adult can breath 10-20 times per minute.

Lungs can float on water, its the only organ that floats in water.

An average person breathes in around 11,000 liters of air every day.

Half a liter of water is going away everyday by the functioning of lungs.

We are breathing about 40 billion trillions of oxygen molecules.