50 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT HUMAN BODY YOU SHOULD KNOW!


HUMAN BODY:-

Human beings are arguably the most complex organisms on this planet. Imagine billions of microscopic parts, each with its own identity, working together in an organized manner for the benefit of the total being. The human body is a single structure but it is made up of billions of smaller structures called cells. One can't imagine how complex our human body is! As we are more advance than other organisms on this planet, we should know some facts about our human body.

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT HUMAN BODY 

  1. Nerve impulses sent from the brain move at a speed of 274 km/h.
  2. A single human brain generates more electrical impulses in a day than all the telephones of the world combined.
  3. The average human body contains enough sulphur to kill all the fleas on the average dog, enough carbon to make 900 pencils, enough potassium to fire a toy cannon, enough fat to make seven bars of soap and enough water to fill a 50-litre barrel.
  4. The human heart pumps 182 million litres of blood during the average lifetime.
  5. 50,000 cells in your body died and were replaced by new ones while you were reading this sentence.
  6. The human embryo acquires fingerprints within three months of conception.
  7. Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
  8. A man named Charles Osborne hiccupped for a total of 68 years.
  9. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
  10. About two thirds of people tilt their head to the right when kissing.
  11. The average person forgets 90% of their dreams.
  12. The total length of all the blood vessels in the human body is about 100,000 km.
  13. We can't swallow and breathe at the same time. 

  14. We lose our muscles while sneezing. 

  15. The human body contains enough fat to make  seven bars of soap.

  16. Between birth and death, the human body goes from having  300 bones, to just 206.

  17. We breathe average 16 times in a minute. 

  18. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.

  19. The human heart is approximately equal in size to that of a person's fist. 

  20. An adult’s heart weights 220-260 grams. 

  21. Your right lung can take in more air than your left.

  22. An adult person performs around 23,000 inhalations and exhalations a day.

  23. The smallest cells in a man’s body are sperm cells.

  24. There are about 40,000 bacteria in the human mouth.

  25. Each of us has around 2,000 taste buds.

  26. The human eye can distinguish 10 million different colours.

  27. The chemical compound in the body which causes feelings of ecstasy (phenylethylamine) is also contained in chocolate.

  28. The human heart pumps blood at such pressure that it would be able to raise blood up to the fourth floor of a building.

  29. A person burns more calories when they are asleep than when they watch TV.

  30. Children grow faster in the spring.

  31. Every year more than 2 million left-handed people die because of mistakes they make when using machines designed for right-handed people.

  32. A sneeze generates a wind of 166 km/hr (100 mi/hr), and a cough moves out at 100 km/hr (60 mi/hr).

  33.  Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day or about 30 million times in a year.

  34.  Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey per day.

  35. We exercise at least 36 muscles when we smile.

  36.  We are about 70 percent water.

  37.  We make around 1 to 1.6 litres of saliva a day.

  38. Facial hair  grows faster than any other hair on the body. 
  39. Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
  40. The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve zinc. It doesn't destroy the stomach because the stomach walls constantly renew themselves.
  41. The lifespan of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average.
  42.  Fingernails grow nearly four times faster than toenails.
  43. The nail on the middle finger grows faster than the other fingernails.
  44. The average person has 67 different species of bacteria in their belly button.
  45. You lose about 4kg of skin cells every year!
  46. Babies don’t shed tears until they’re at least one month old.
  47.  Your left lung is about 10 percent smaller than your right one.
  48. Human teeth are just as strong as shark teeth.
  49. Scientists estimate that the nose can recognise a trillion different scents!
  50. We can't sneeze with our eyes open.     

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