LinkHunger Presents you the some awesome and interesting facts about our human body.
Here is the list:
- We are about 70% water.
- Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s.
- Women have better sense of smell than men.
- Men lose 40 hairs in a day and women lose 70 hairs in a day.
- A person can expect to breathe in about 20.4 kg of dust over his/her lifetime.
- Our stomach acid is even strong enough to dissolve razor blades.
- Our brain uses up about 20% of all your body’s oxygen and calories.
- Food takes 7 seconds to reach stomach from mouth.
- Our heart beats around 100000 times a day, 36500000 times a year and over a billion times if you live beyond 30.
- Red blood cells carry oxygen around the body. They are created inside the bone marrow of your bones.
- Most adults have 32 teeth.
- The smallest bone found in the human body is located in the middle ear. It’s about only 2.8 millimetres long.
- Your nose and ears continue growing throughout your entire life.
- Infants blink only once or twice a minute while adults average around 10.
- Our sense of smell is around 10000 times more sensitive than our sense of taste.
- Adult lungs have a surface area of around 70 square meters.
- 10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria.
- 80% of the brain is water.
- A human ear contains about 24,000 fibers in it.
- Our nose can remember 50,000 different scents.
- Our teeth start growing 6 months before you are born.
- We make around 1 to 1.6 liters of saliva a day.
- The average red blood cell lives for 120 days.
- Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey per day.
- We give birth to over 200 billion red cells every day.
- When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph
- We exercise at least 36 muscles when we smile.
- The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
- Our foot contains 25% of all the bones within our body.
- Our left lung is smaller than our right lung to make room for our heart.
- We use 200 muscles to take one step.
- Your body has about 5.6 liters of blood. This 5.6 liters of blood circulates through the body three times every minute.
- Our bones are composed of 31% water.
- Women blink twice as many times as men do.
- The average human head weighs about 4.5 kg.
- Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
- Our eyes never grow, and our nose and ears never stop growing.
- During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 27215.5 kg of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants.
- The human body has 230 movable and semi- movable joints.
- Our Brain has over 100 billion nerve cells.
- There are around 100 receptors in each of our fingertips.
- There are around 1,200,000 optic fibers in the human eye.
- There are approximately 96,000 km of blood vessels in the human body.
- The most common blood type in the world is Type O Group.
- The maximum length of hair can be 70 to 90 cm.
- The lifespan of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average.
- The human body has 4 million pain sensitive structures.
- The brain is much more active at night than during the day.
- The brain itself cannot feel pain.
- Children grow faster in spring time.
- Blood Pressure increases when a person becomes older.
- Child has more bones than elders.
- Our Lungs can hold 3 litres of air.
- Vitamin K helps the blood to clot.
- There are 206 bones in the human body.
- There are 639 muscles in the human body.
- Our bladder is capable of holding 0.5 litres of urine.
- Brain takes 3 mins to die, after the blood circulation stops.
- Universal Blood Donors are O Group.
- Universal Blood Acceptors/Receivers are AB Group.
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