42 Lesser Known Amazing Human Body Facts
1. Children grow faster in
springtime
2. It is not possible to
tickle yourself.
3. All babies are color blind
at birth, they see only black and white.
4. Each person sheds 22
kilograms of skin in his or her lifetime.
5. Average life span of a
taste bud is only 10 days.
6. Your teeth start growing 6
months before you are born.
7. Largest muscle in your
body is one on which you are sitting on.
8. Children have more taste
buds than adults.
9. Eyes stay the same size
throughout life but nose and ears never stop growing.
10. There are approximately
96,000 km of blood vessels in the human body.
11. Heart circulates blood in
your body about 1000 times each day.
12. When you blush, your
stomach lining also reddens.
13. When you sleep, you grow
by about 8mm (0.3in). The next day you shrink back to your former height. The
reason is that your cartilage discs are squeezed like sponges by the force of
gravity when you stand or sit..
14. A mans testicles
manufacture 10 million new sperm cells each day – enough that he could
repopulate the entire planet in only 6 months!
15. Scientists say the higher
your I.Q. the more you dream.
16. You lose your taste buds
as you age
17. Food takes 7 seconds to
reach stomach from mouth.
18. The largest cell in the
human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm
19. The female ovaries
contain nearly half-a-million egg cells, yet only 400 or so will ever get the
opportunity to create a new life.
20. The human feet have
500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of sweat a day.
21. The only part of your
body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It gets its oxygen
directly from air.
22. There are 500 hairs in an
eyebrow.
23. Human skull is made up of
26 different bones.
24. You are born without knee
caps and they don’t appear until age of 2 to 6 years.
25. Your heart beats 100 000
times a day.
26. Your blood has same
amount of salts in it as an ocean has.
27. Men lose about 40 hairs
in a day and women lose 70 hairs in a day.
28. In your lifetime, you
will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
29. Your nose can remember
50,000 different scents.
30. Eyelashes last about 150
days.
31. The kidneys filter your
blood up to 300 times per day.
32. Tongue is the strongest
muscle in human body.
33. The average human body
contains approximately 100 billion nerve cells.
34. The air from a sneeze can
travel at unbelievable speeds of 100 mph or more.
35. When you were born, you
had 300 bones. Now you have 206, if you are an adult. The rest of the bones
have not disappeared – they have merely fused together.
36. The nail on the middle
finger grows faster than the other fingernails.
37. Hair is made of same
substance as fingernails.
38. Smallest bone of body is
in ears.
39. It is impossible to
sneeze with your eyes open.
40. Our entire body functions
stop when we sneeze, even your heart beat.
41. The average man has about
11 erections each day and several more at night.
42. 80% of the brain is
water.
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