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The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in their life
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The only reason the acid in your stomach doesn't eat right through your body is because the stomach cells are renewed faster than they are destroyed
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Your stomach acid is even strong enough to dissolve razor blades
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In order to taste something your mouth has to be able to dissolve it. Try drying off your tongue before eating your favorite candy…
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Your brain uses up about 20% of all your body's oxygen and calories
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Apart from identical twins every single person on Earth has a unique smell
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A higher IQ is correlated with more dreams
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You are about 1 cm shorter at night because the cartilage between your bones is compressed throughout the day
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Your feet have half a million sweat glands that produce over a pint of fluid everyday
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There are over 300 million capillaries in your lungs. If you stretched them out end to end they would reach across the United States
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If you laid all of your blood vessels end to end they would stretch 60,000 miles, or around the world nearly two and a half times
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Women blink twice as much as men
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Men get hiccups twice as much as women
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During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
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After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp
Did you know that babies can only see in black and white? Or that one of your hairs can last up to 7 years on your head? These are 25 unbelievable facts about the human body.
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By age sixty you will have lost half your taste buds
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Babies can only see black and white when they are born
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Your cornea is the only part of your body without a blood supply. It gets its oxygen directly from the air
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You knew that 75% of your body is water, but did you know that 80% of your brain is water?
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The average lifespan of a human hair is 3-7 years
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Aside from being flammable, human hair is exceedingly difficult to destroy even with strong acids
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The human body may appear fragile but it’s possible to survive even with the removal of the stomach, the spleen, 75 percent of the liver, 80 percent of the intestines, one kidney, one lung, and virtually every organ from the pelvic and groin area.
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A full bladder is roughly the size of a softball
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Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born
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Most babies are born with blue eyes. Exposure to ultraviolet light (the sun) and melanin are what eventually bring out their true color
- Did you than human nose can remember up to 50000 different types of scents .
- Research suggests that Children tend to grow faster in spring season as compared to any other time of the year !
- Food is either cooled or warmed to a suitable temperature in the mouth !
- Hugging releases oxytocin,which helps to heal physical wounds,makes someone trust you more !
- Do you know that your Toe-prints are also unique , just like your finger prints !And imagine even your tongue print is unique!
- You know ,you have no sense of smell when you're sleeping!
- You know ,you can see your nose all the time but somehow your brain always ignores it!
- We all blink after every few seconds, but do we know the purpose of blinking ! Blinking helps to wash tears over our eyeballs.That keeps them clean and moist.
- An average person has over 1,460 dreams a year which is about 4 dreams every night!
- On a clear night ,the human eye can see between 2000 to 3000 stars in the sky.
- Do you know the similarity between human body and a banana? You will be amazed to know that 50% of human DNA is same as in banana!
- The human body has enough iron in it to make 3 inches long nail.
- A human heart pumps enough blood to fill 100 swimming pools in an average lifetime.In the same time it will beat almost three billion times
- While sleeping, one person out of every eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth
- All babies are color blind when they are born ,so they only see black & white.
- People with dark color skin wrinkle later than the people having light color skins!
- Guess how many muscles are working when you take a step! Well, about 200 muscles are used when we take a single step!
- Weight of the eyeball ! The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.
- People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.
- Do you know ,it is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open !
- And do you know ,it is impossible to hum while your nose is plugged close !
- Do you know 'rhinoplasty' is the name given to plastic surgery which involves nose !
- Have you heard about Anosmia ,Dysosmia ,Hyperosmia? These all words are related to sense of smelling. Anosmia means inability to smell and Dysosmia is a condition where things don't smell like they should smell whereas Hyperosmia means strong sense of smelling !
- Here is one more trivia about nose :the technical term for sense of smell is 'olfaction' !
- Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day.
- Do you know what is Uvula? It is the small piece of the small tissue dangling over the tongue.
- Now this is cool ,the tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.
- And did you know that our fingers don't have any muscles ? The muscles which move our finger joints are located in the palm and up in the forearm.
- An adult human body contains approximately 100 trillion cells!
- Your tongue has 3,000 taste buds.
- Do you know ,your brain is 80% water?
- No pain in the brain! Do you know our brain does not feel pain! Even though brain processes pain signals,the brain itself actually does not feel pain.
- Bones in an adult account for 14% of the body's total weight.
- The tips of your fingers have enough strength to support the weight of your whole body
- When you are born with 300 bones in their body, but as an adult you only have 206 bones. This happens because many of them join together to make a single bone.
- The outsides of a bone are hard, they are light and soft inside. They are about 75% water.
- The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and it's hollow!
- The smallest bone in the human body is the staples bone which is located in the ear,it is also called stirrup .
- Men get hiccups more often than women.
- A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 miles per hour.When a sneeze leaves your body ,it is at such a high speed that you should avoid supressing it.
- It takes food only seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus, pretty fast ! right?
- Enamel is hardest substance in the human body.
- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
- Women hearts beat faster than men. Also women blink more than men !
- In one day ,your heart beats 100,000 times.
- And do you know that breathing rate is faster in children and women than men !
- The normal pulse is 70 heartbeats per minute.
- Blood is such a good stain that Native Americans used it for paint.
- Did you know that Blood is 6 times thicker than water?
- Our kidneys filter about 1.3 liters of blood every minute & expel up to 1.4 liters of urine in a day.
- The capacity of an adult human bladder ranges from approximately 600 ml to 800 ml. The exact maximum capacity varies from person to person. But remember that the urge to urinate is triggered when the bladder contains about 100 to 200 mls , much lower than full capacity. As the bladder fills with fluid, receptors in the bladder wall get stretched.
- Do you know a woman has approximately 4.5 liters of blood in her body, while men have 5.6 liters?
- Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a human's blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. That's enough to go around the world twice.
- Did you know that, our heart (which is one of the main muscles ) is so powerful that it can squirt the blood no less than 9 meters high? It's because it’s programmed to deliver the blood even in the less accessible areas of the body, like the toes & the fingertips, and therefore, in order to do this, it’s necessary for the heart to create lots of pressure inside the veins.
- People with darker skin will not wrinkle as fast as people with lighter skin.
- The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.
- The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
- The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
- Every drop of blood in your body is filtered by your body over 300 times a day.
- Babies are born with pink lungs but they darken in color as we breathe in polluted air.
- Your right lung is bigger than left lung! The left lung is small so as to adjust heart in that part !
- Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
- You burn more calorie while sleeping than watching TV.