38 Facts about Your Body you maybe didn’t know?!

It’s not an overstatement to say that every part of your body is a miracle.




Here is some of facts about your body you maybe didn’t know:




1.Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

2.Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour.

3.An adult human being is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms.

4.A human baby has over 60 more bones than an adult.

5.There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in an adult human body.

6.An average person produces about 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.

7.Your body has enough iron in it to make a metal nail 3 inches long.

8.We all have tiny mites living in our eyelashes.

9.The strongest muscle in the human body is the masseter (jaw muscle).

10.Sweat itself is odorless. It’s the bacteria on the skin that mingles with it and produces body odor.

11.Having excessive body hair is linked to higher intellect.

12.Ears and Nose never stop growing.

13.Similar to fingerprints, everyone also has a Unique Tongue Print.

14.When awake, the human brain produces enough electricity to power a small lightbulb.

15.Human Bones are ounce for ounce, stronger than steel.

16.People with blue eyes have a higher alcohol tolerance.

17.The human eye can distinguish about 10 million different colors.

18.We spend about 10% of our waking hours with our eyes closed, blinking.

19.If the human eye was a digital camera it would have 576 megapixels.

20.All of the bacteria in our body collectively weighs about 4 pounds.

21.The human body produces about a litre (0.26 gal) of mucus per day.

22.There are more than 100 types of cancers; any part of the body can be affected.

23.Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to.

24.Your brain uses 20% of the total oxygen and blood in your body.

25.Your bones are composed of 31% water.

26.There’s more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.

27.Every day, your heart creates enough energy to drive a truck for 20 miles (32 km).

28.If uncoiled, the DNA in all the cells in your body would stretch 10 billion miles, from here to Pluto and back.

29.Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.

30.Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you.

31.Sleeping less than 7 hours each night reduces your life expectancy.

32.In a lifetime, your brain’s long-term memory can hold as many as 1 quadrillion (1 million billion) separate bits of information.

33.The gastrointestinal tract is a 30-foot (9 m) tube running from your mouth to your anus.

34.Your heart will pump nearly 1.5 million barrels of blood during your lifetime, enough to fill 200 train tank cars.

35.Your heart can keep beating even if it is separated from the body because it has its own electrical impulse.

36.Your brain keeps developing until your late 40s.

37.Our lungs and nasal passages have exquisitely tiny hairs called cilia that can “taste” bitter flavors.

38.When you take one step, you are using up to 200 muscles.
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