2. Every day, our kidneys filter about 50 gallons of blood through their 140 miles of tubes.
3. Our total blood supply is filtered by the kidneys about once every five minutes.
4. In English, the words most likely to follow kidney are disease, failure, transplant and stones.
5. There are 13 mentions of kidneys in the King James Bible but none for the singular ‘kidney’.
6. The only mention of kidneys in Shakespeare is in The Merry Wives Of Windsor when Falstaff refers to someone as “a man of my kidney”.
7. In snakes, the right kidney is closer to the head than the left kidney.
8. In 2003, doctors in Latvia reported a case of a man with four kidneys.
9. The first successful human kidney transplant was performed in 1954. The NHS now performs around 3,000 kidney transplants a year.
10. Nephrite, a form of jade, is named after the Greek for kidney, Nephros, as it was thought effective in treating kidney disease.
Source>http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/top10facts/464510/Top-10-facts-about-kidneys
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