Fun Facts About the Human Body
Fun Facts About the Human Body
- nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour
- the brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb
- the human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britc
- your brain uses 20% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream
- your brain is much more active at night than during the day
- scientists say the higher your I.Q. the more you dream
- neurons continue to grow throughout human life
- the brain itself cannot feel pain
- 80% of the brain is water
- the largest internal organ is the small intestines
- the human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet
- the acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades
- the human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels
- you get a new stomach lining every 3 to 4 days
- the surface area of a human lung is equal to a tennis court
- women’s hearts beat faster than men’s
- scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions
- the aorta is nearly the diameter of a garden hose
- the left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for your heart
- you could remove a large part of your internal organs and survive
- the adrenal glands change size throughout life
- sneezes regularly exceed 100 miles per hour
- coughs clock in at 60 miles per hour
- women blink twice as much as men do
- a full bladder is roughly the size of a softball
- feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of sweat a day
- during your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools
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