Amazing Facts About the Human Body

Amazing Facts About the Human Body

1) Everybody has one strong eye and one weak eye.

2) Men get hiccups more often than women.

3) After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.

4) 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)
 
5) Everyone has a unique smell, unique fingerprint and unique tongue print.
 
6) We are about 1cm taller in the mornings than in the evenings.

7) Fingernails grow nearly four times faster than toenails.

8) The lifespan of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average.

9) The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve zinc. It doesn't destroy the stomach because the stomach walls constantly renews itself.

10) Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

11) Women blink twice as many times as men do.

12) Women are born better smellers than men and remain better smellers over life.

13)Men burn fat faster than women by a rate of about 50 calories a day.

14)Men get hiccups more often than women.

15)A man has approximately 6.8 liters of blood in the body while women have approximately 5 liters.

16) The largest cell in the body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.

17) During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.

18) Humans are the only species that produce emotional tears.

19) All babies are color blind at birth, they see only black and white.

20) A man has approximately 6.8 liters of blood in the body while women have approximately 5 liters.

21) One human hair can support 3.5 ounces.

22) By age 60, most people will have lost half their taste buds.
 
23) The only part of your body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It gets its oxygen directly from air.
 
24) Boys have fewer taste buds on the surface of their tongues than girls do.
 
25) Smiling triggers 17 muscles of the face while crying activates 43. So smile more!

26) The nail on the middle finger grows faster than the other fingernails.

27) Your brain uses 20% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream.

28) Every day the average person loses 60-100 strands of hair.

29) The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet.

30) The human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels.

31) There are more bacteria in a human mouth than there are people in the world.

32) To an adult human, taking just one step uses up to 200 muscles.

33) Every hr, human shed about 600,000 particles of skin, or about 1.5 pounds every year. By the time a person is 70 years old, will have lost about 105 pounds of skin.

34) An average person walks about 160,934 kilo meters in whole life, which is like walking around the world four time at the equator..