Fun Facts About the Human Body
By cprworksfl on Aug 15, 2016 in human body fun facts |
- your nose can remember 50,000 different scents
- humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour
- an adult human being is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms
- a human baby has over 60 more bones than an adult
- there are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in an adult human body
- you body has enough iron in it to make a metal nail 3 inches long
- we all have tiny mites living in our eyelashes
- the strongest muscle in the human body is the masseter (jaw muscle)
- ears and nose never stop growing
- similar to fingerprints, everyone also has a unique tongue print
- human bones are ounce for ounce, stronger than steel
- the human eye can distinguish about 10 million different colors
- your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to
- your brain uses 20% of the total oxygen and blood in your body
- your bones are composed of 31% of water
- everyday, your heart creates enough energy to drive a truck for 20 miles
- most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin
- within 3 days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you
- sleeping less than 7 hours each night reduces your life expectancy
- your heart can keep beating even if it is separated from the body because it has its own electrical impulse
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