53 Interesting And Amazing Human Facts About Body

We hang out with our own bodies all the time - so we tend to take them for granted. But if you stop and think about everything your body does, you just might consider how great it is (and you are). All the time your body’s doing a million things that you’re not even aware of- like digesting breakfast, growing new skin, and carrying oxygen to cells from head to toe and ear to ear! Here are 10 incredible facts about your body.
1

Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

nose facts
2

Just one drop of blood contains about 10,000 while blood cells and 250,000 platelets.

blood facts
3

10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria.

human bacteria
4

The average red blood cell lives for 120 days.

blood facts
5

A red blood cell can circumnavigate your body in under 20 seconds.

red blood cells facts
6

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

skin facts
7

Considering all the tissues and cells in your body, 25 million new cells are being produced each second. That's a little less than the population of Canada - every second!

tissues and cells facts
8

10% of men and 8% of women are left-handed.

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9

80 head hairs are likely to fall every day.

hairs fall facts
10

Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day or about 30 million times a year.

heart beats facts
11

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

human atoms facts
12

Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey per day.

blood journey
13

About 10,000 human cells can fit on the head of a pin.

human cells
14

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

60 more bones
15

80% of the brain is water.

80% of the brain is water
16

Eating Breakfast helps to burn 5 to 20% of calories throughout the day.

Eating Breakfast
17

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

blood vessels
18

Body fat is not particularly hazardous to health until the level of total body fat reaches 35% for men and 40% for women.

Body fat
19

Your salivary glands produce two to six cups of (0.5-1.5 liters) of saliva a day. Six cups of saliva would come close to filling a big, two-liter (67.6) ounce soda bottle!

salivary glands
20

A sneeze generates a wind of 166 km/hr (100 mi/hr), and a cough moves out at 100 km/hr (60 mi/hr).

sneeze
21

Sweat doesn’t smell bad. A stinky “body odor” is caused when the skin bacteria feed on sweat. Their waste products are what smell bad!

Sweat
22

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

saliva in a lifetime
23

Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day or about 30 million times a year.

heart beats
24

The Brain is a very wrinkly organ! If you spread it out, your brain would be about the size of a pillowcase. By the time you are six years old, your brain is already 90 percent of the size it will be when you are an adult.

Brain
25

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

jaw muscle
26

Our eyes can distinguish up to ten million color surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.

eyes facts
27

The heart pumps blood to almost all of the body’s 75 trillion cells.

heart facts
28

Like dead skin cells, your hair and nails are made of keratin. Keratin forms tough body parts in other animals, too. It’s found in wool, fur, feathers, claws, beaks, hooves, horns, porcupine quills, and turtle shells.

heart facts
29

Ears and Nose never stop growing.

Ears and Nose never stop growing.
30

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

body iron
31

A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.

fingerprints
32

We all have tiny mites living in our eyelashes.

eyelashes
33

When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph.

touch something
34

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

Tongue Print
35

When awake, the human brain produces enough electricity to power a small light bulb.

human brain
36

The human eye can distinguish about 10 million different colors.

human eye
37

A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.

human bladder
38

We exercise at least 36 muscles when we smile.

smile
39

A hair grows by 0.3 to 0.5 mm per day, 1 to 1.5 cm per month and 12 to 15 cm per year.

hair grows
40

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

eyes blinking
41

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

human eye 576 megapixels
42

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

human mucus
43

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

human brain
44

Your bones are composed of 31% water.

Your bones are composed of 31% water.
45

A human body contains about 200,000 temperature detectors.

human body temperature detectors
46

A human body has 500,000 touch detectors.

human body touch detectors
47

We are about 70 percent water.

We are about 70 percent water
48

There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world

There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world
49

A newborn baby has more than 26 billion cells.

newborn baby
50

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

heart energy
51

Without your pinky finger, you would lose about 50% of your hand strength.

pinky finger
52

Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.

nose air-conditioning system
53

We have Copper,Lead,Aluminum, Zinc, Cobalt, Calcium, Manganese, Phosphates,Tin,Barium, Nickel and Silicon in our bodies.

Metal in human bodies

There are still so many questions to answer about the workings of the human body and, most mysterious of all, it is influenced by our state of mind.
(Craig Venter)

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