Fun Facts!
- Small intestine, 5-6 meters long.
- Large intestine, 1.5 meters long.
- The adults small intestine is 6-7 meters long.
- If you stick the large intestine and the small intestine together, it is 15
meters long.
- The large intestine is 7 to 10 cm wide.
- The large intestine absorbs the water from the waste.
- The small intestine has three layers called, serosa, muscle layer and the
mucosa layer.
- The small intestine folds, twists in the center of the cecum, below the
stomach there is the liver and pancreas.
- The small intestine crosses 2.5 gallons of food.
- The small intestine is divided into three pieces, they are the duodenum,
ileum and the jejunum.
- The large intestine is divided into 6 pieces, they are cecum, ascending
colon, transverse colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon and the rectum.
- Esophagus is 25 centimeters long.
- The food stays in the mouth for about 1 minute.
- In the stomach the food stays there for 2-4 hours.