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40 Wacky Facts About Human Body You Didin’t Know by Dajugba: 1:37pm On Aug 05, 2015 |
40 Wacky Facts About Human
Body You Didin’t Know The human body is an incredibly complex and intricate system and it still baffles researchers regularly despite thousands of years of medical knowledge. As a result, it shouldn’t be a surprise that even body parts we deal with everyday have unexpected facts and explanations behind them. Here are 40 wacky facts about the human body: 1. The brain is more active at night than during the day. Scientists don’t know yet why this is. 2. The higher your IQ, the more you dream. 3. Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body. 4. The nail on the middle finger grows faster than the other fingernails. 5. Fingernails grow nearly four times faster than toe nails. 6. The lifespan of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average. 7. The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve zinc. It doesn’t destroy the stomach because because the stomach walls constantly renews itself. 8. Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s. 9. Women blink twice as many times as men do. 10. Women are born better smellers than men and remain better smellers over life.
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Re: 40 Wacky Facts About Human Body You Didin’t Know by Dajugba: 1:41pm On Aug 05, 2015 |
11. Men burn fat faster than
women by a rate of about 50
calories a day.
12. Men get hiccups more often
than women.
13. A man has approximately 6.8
litres of blood in the body while
women have approximately 5
litres.
14. The largest cell in the body is
the female egg and the smallest
is the male sperm.
15. During your lifetime, you will
produce enough saliva to fill two
swimming pools.
16. Babies are always born with
blue eyes. The melanin in their
eyes needs time to be fully
deposited or to be darkened by
ultraviolet light to reveal the
baby’s true eye color.
17. Men have erections every
hour to hour and a half during
sleep. This is because the
combination of blood circulation
and testerone production can
cause erections during sleep and
are a necessary part of REM sleep.
18. After eating too much, your
hearing is less sharp.
19. If your saliva cannot dissolve
or mix with food, you will not be
able to taste that food (try tasting
something after drying off your
tongue)
20. Noise causes the pupils of
your eyes to dilate. Even very
small noises can do this. |
Re: 40 Wacky Facts About Human Body You Didin’t Know by Dajugba: 1:44pm On Aug 05, 2015 |
21. Everyone has a unique smell,
unique finger print and unique
tongue print.
22. By age 60, most people will
have lost half their taste buds.
23. Your eyes remain the same
size after birth but your nose and
ears never stop growing.
24. A simple, moderately severe
sunburn burns the blood vessels
extensively.
25. We are about 1cm taller in
the mornings than in the
evenings.
26. The strongest muscle in the
body is the human tongue.
27. The hardest bone in the
human body is the jaw bone.
28. The hands and feet contains
almost half of the total bones in
the human body.
29. About 32 million bacteria call
every inch of your skin home, but
they are mostly harmless and
some of them are even helpful.
30. Humans shed and regrow
outer skin every 27 days. |
Re: 40 Wacky Facts About Human Body You Didin’t Know by Dottore: 1:45pm On Aug 05, 2015 |
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Re: 40 Wacky Facts About Human Body You Didin’t Know by Dajugba: 1:47pm On Aug 05, 2015 |
31. Three hundred million cells
die in the human body every
minute and everyday and adult
produces 300 billion new cells.
32. The colder the room you
sleep, the higher the chances are
that you would get a nightmare.
33. Humans are the only species
that produce emotional tears.
34. All babies are color blind at
birth, they see only black and
white.
35. The only part of your body
that has no blood supply is the
cornea in the eye. It gets its
oxygen directly from air.
36. A normal human being can
survive 20 days without eating
but can survive only 2 days
without drinking.
37. It is impossible to kill yourself
by choking yourself with your
hands.
38. Everybody has one strong eye
and one weak eye.
39. Your skeleton keeps
renewing itself every ten years
which means that every ten years
you get a new skeleton.
40. The human feet have
500,000 sweat glands and can
produce more than a pint of
sweat a day. |
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