A disorder of the inner ear causes every sound within the body to be amplified, including eye movements!!
The word “lung” is from a German word meaning “light”; together two adult human lungs weigh only 2.5 pounds (11.1kg).
If you spread out an adult human’s brain, it would be about the size of a pillowcase.!!
Adult humans spend about 33% of their lives asleep. A python spends about 75% of their life, and a dog spends about 44%.
Your mitochondria has it’s own DNA!!!
You can actually exceed your limits when in danger due to adrenaline!!
Dimples are genetic defect!!
There is no race. Everyone is equal!!
Myth which says that you use 4% of your brain is false!!
99% of our DNA is same with chimpanzee!!
The largest bone in the human body is the femur. It can support 30 times the weight of a person's body.
Messages from the human brain travel along nerves at up to 322 km/h.
In an adult human, 25% of their bones are in the feet.
The gluteus maximus is the body’s largest muscle.
A human’s ears and nose never stop growing.
A human’s little finger contributes over 50% of the hand’s strength!!!
If a human being’s DNA were uncoiled, it would stretch 10 billion miles, from Earth to Pluto and back.
It would take a someone typing 60 words per minute, eight hours a day, around 50 years to type the human genome!!
There are more bacteria in a human mouth than there are people in the world.
Within three days of dying, the enzymes that digested a person’s food will begin to diegest that person’s body.
For an adult human, taking just one step uses up to 200 muscles!!
A human skeleton renews itself completely every 10 years.
The same skin cells that make up a human vagina are the same type of cells that are in a human mouth.
By the time a person reaches 70 years old, he or she will have consumed over 36000 liter of water.
An adult humans small intestine is about 18 to 23 feet long, which is about four times as long as an adult is tall.
Semen normally contains 1-8 billion sperm per fluid ounces (140-300 million sperm per millimeter).
A person’s feet has about 500,000 sweat glands and can produce about a pint of sweat a day.
Bone is five times stronger than a steel bar of the same width, but it is brittle and can fracture on impact.
The body can detect taste in .0015 seconds, which is faster than the blink of an eye.
Taste buds are not visible to the naked eye; the little bumps that can be seen on the tongue are actually papillae, on top of which rest the taste buds
The taste cells in our taste buds live for only about two weeks
The brain contains 86 billion nerve cells joined by 100 trillion connections. This is more than the number of stars in the Milky Way.
The largest cell in the human body is an egg (or ovum) and is barely visible to the naked eye.
Like fingerprints, each human tongue has its own unique print.
Your brain is always working!!
Your body actually produces electricity!!
Every hour, humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin, or about .7 kg every year. By the time a person is 70 years old, they will have lost about 50 kg of skin.!!!
The average human produces 6000 liter of saliva in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
Your spit contains your entire genetic blueprint!
The lining in a person's stomach is replaced every 4 to 5 days to prevent it from digesting itself.
A human sneeze can travel about 100 mph or more.
Fingernails grow faster on the hand a person writes with. They also grow faster than toenails, and faster on longer fingers!!
An adult is made up of 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms
The strongest muscle in the human body is the masseter, or the jaw muscle.
The liver the largest internal organ and is the only organ that can regenerate itself. However, repeated damage to the liver can eventually injure and scar this amazing organ.
The human brain uses just as much power as a 10-watt light bulb.
The word “organ” comes from an old Greek word, organon, which means “tool” or “instrument..
An adult’s skin weighs between 3.6 to 5 kg. It’s surface area is about 18-22 square feet (1.7 to 2 sq. m), which is the size of the floor in a one-person tent.
A person will eat approximately 35 tons of food in a lifetime
The fastest muscles in a human body are the ones that make the eyes blink. They can contract in less than one-hundredth of a second. In just one day, a person may blink their eyes over 11,500 times.
The word “muscle” is from the Latin word musculus, or “little mouse.” The Romans thought a flexing muscle looked like a mouse moving under the skin.
Humans spend about five years of their lives eating.
An adult’s stomach can hold over 1.9 liter of food. That’s enough to fill four large or eight small drinking glasses.
The average human produces about three to eight ounces(1kg=35once)of feces a day.!!
In an adult human, blood circulates about 12,000 miles (19,000 km) a day. This is like traveling from east to west across the widest part of the Pacific Ocean.
A human heart beats over 3 billion times during an average human lifespan.
Some people can hear their eyeballs moving around in their head.!!
The longest bone in an adult human is the thighbone, measuring about 18 inches (46 cm). The shortest bone is in the ear and is just 0.1 inches (.25 cm) long, which is shorter than a grain of rice.
An adult who weighs 150 pounds has a skeleton that weighs about 21 pounds.
An average person walks about 160,934 km in his or her lifetimes, which is like walking around the world four times at the equator.
A human eye can distinguish between approximately 10 million different colors.
The space between the eyebrows is called the "glabella," which is derived from the Latin word glabellus, meaning smooth.
A person takes about 23,040 breaths a day, or about 672,768,000 breaths in a lifetime.
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