- The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades.
- The human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels.
- Humans lose an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
- Women’s hair is about half the diameter of men’s hair.
- The lifespan of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average.
- Every inch of the skin, there are about 32 million bacterias.
- 300 billion new cells are produced every day. 300 million old cells die every minute.
- The tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself.
- On average, your kidneys will filter around 1.3 liters of blood every minute.
- Men produce around 10 million sperm per day.
- On average, a woman’s body produces about 1/2 a million eggs.
- On average, an individual grows over 450 miles of hair in a lifetime.
- The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.
- There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
- A human sneeze creates a blast of air that can be moving more than 100 miles per hour.
- The average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in his or her lifetime.
- A baby human’s fingerprints are formed after just three months of the pregancy.
- The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb.
- Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood the number is reduced to 206.
- By the time they are 60 years old, most humans have lost half of their taste buds.
- The human body has enough iron in it to make a 3 inches long nail.
- The average human head has about 100,000 hairs.
- Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.
- An adult human body contains approximately 100 trillion cells.
- There are nearly 46 miles of nerves in an adult’s body.
- Fingernails grow 4 times faster than toenails.
- The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
- The human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels.
- Everyone has a unique smell, except for identical twins, who smell the same.
- All babies are color blind at birth, they see only black and white.
- Your body requires 1000-1500 calories per day just to simply survive: breathing, sleeping and eating.
- To completely regrow a human fingernail or toenail, all the way from base to tip, takes about 6 months.
- The brain has approximately 100 billion nerve cells that send and receive information around the body.
- A normal human being can survive 20 days without eating but can survive only 2 days without drinking.
- By the time it is seventy years old, your human heart will have beat an average two-and-a-half billion times.
- The only part of your body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It gets its oxygen directly from air.
- In just 30 minutes, the average person’s body produces enough heat to boil a 1/2 gallon of water.
- Your lungs need a lot of breathing room. The total surface area of the lungs is approximately equal to the size of a tennis court.
- The human brain cells can hold between 3 and 1000 Terabytes of information. The National Archives of Britain, containing over 900 years of history, only takes up 70 terabytes.
- The brain only makes up about 2% of the body but uses 20% of the oxygen that enters the bloodstream.
40 Interesting Facts About the Human Body
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43.drinking water after eating sugarcane can lead to mouth cancer or stomach ulcer
43. The ear is the last sense to die in the human body
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44. The youngest parents were 8 and 9 years old in china.
43. Each person has a unique tongue print just like the fingerprints.
41. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
42. The colder the room you sleep in, the more chances you will have a bad dream.