‘Do you know that if our surface area was stretched out, we
would cover the size of a tennis court?’ they boasted.
‘A tennis court?’ replied Leon’s blood vessels. ‘That’s nothing. In Leon’s body, we are 96,000 km long. That’s a distance of more than twice around
the world.’
Then every cell in Leon’s body decided to join in.
‘So, you think 32 million is an impressive number, do
you? Well, in Leon’s body, 300 million
of us die every minute. And he doesn’t
even notice. Yes, that’s right. 300 million.’
There was a short silence before one – just one –of Leon’s
brain cells announced in a very tiny voice, ‘Well, all on my own, I can hold
five times more information than the Encyclopaedia Britannica.’
And all the other body parts went very quiet at this
point. Not because they were amazed by
the one brain cell, but because they didn’t know what the Encyclopaedia
Britannica was!
Do you know? And which of Leon’s parts do you think won
the competition to be the best?
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