Interesting Fast Facts About Human Body

An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

• A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
• A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it’s there.
• The human body contains 60,000 miles of blood vessels.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
• The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.
• The brain of an average adult male weighs 1,375 gm (55 oz). The brain of Russian novelist Turgenev weighed 2021 gm (81 oz), Bismark’s weighed 1807 gm (72 oz), while that of French statesman Gambetta was only 1294 gm (51 oz). Einstein’s brain was of average size.
• Interesting Facts is that Your muscles make up about one-half of your body weight.
• About half of the bones in the human body are located in the hands and feet.
• An adult human heart weighs about 10 ounces and beats over 100,000 times a day.
• Your fingernail has the same ingredients as fly poop.
• Your eye will focus on about 50 things per second.
• The body has 93,000 miles of nerves in it.
• Your eye expands up to 45% when looking at something pleasing.
• Interesting Facts is that You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
• The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid, a V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue between the mandible and the voice box. Its function is to support the tongue and its muscles.
• In an average lifetime, a person produces 10,000 gallons of saliva.
• The human brain is about 85% water.
• The human skin weights 6 lbs.
• Cholesterol is used to make sex hormones.
• Interesting Facts is that When you fart in a pool, it creates a chemical reaction.
• Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body, second only to bone marrow.
• It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
• About 8 million blood cells die in the human body every second, and the same number are born each second.
• At – 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
• There are 35 million digestive glands in the stomach.
• A newborn expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours.
• There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you have probably never heard of.
• The brain is soft and gelatinous – its consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta.
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
• Interesting Facts is that One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.
• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
• It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
• Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
• Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
• Every person has a unique tongue print.
• During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants.
• Interesting Facts is that Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
• In one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes. This amounts to approximately two kilograms in a year.
• Every square inch of the human body has about 19,000,000 skin cells.
• Approximately 25% of all scald burns to children are from hot tap water and is associated with more deaths than with any other liquid.
• Forty-one percent of women apply body and hand moisturizer at least three times a day.
• Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
• The world record for the number of body piercing on one individual is 702, which is held by Canadian Brent Moffat.
• The small intestine in the human body is about 2 inches around, and 22 feet long.
• The human body makes anywhere from 1 to 3 pints of saliva every 24 hours.
• The human body has approximately 37,000 miles of capillaries.
• The aorta, which is largest artery located in the body, is about the diameter of a garden hose.
• The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily.
• It is very common for babies in New Zealand to sleep on sheepskins. This is to help them gain weight faster, and retain their body heat.
• An average women has 17 square feet of skin. When a women is in her ninth month of pregnancy she has 18.5 square feet of skin.
• The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body.
• 41% of women apply body or hand moisturizer a minimum three times a day.
• A human’s small intestine is 6 meters long.
• There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee. You don’t see all of them because most are too fine and light to be noticed.
• Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
• Dead cells in the body ultimately go to the kidneys for excretion.
• By walking an extra 20 minutes every day, an average person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in an year.
• The human body is 75% water.
• Women hearts beat faster than men.
• Three years after a person quits smoking, there chance of having a heart attack is the same as someone who has never smoked before.
• The human heart weighs less than a pound.
• The human heart can create enough pressure that it could squirt blood at a distance of thirty feet.
• The first open heart surgery was performed by Dr. Daniel Hall Williams in 1893.
• Scientists have discovered that the longer the ring finger is in boys the less chance they have of having a heart attack.
• The right lung of a human is larger than the left one. This is because of the space and placement of the heart.
• The human heart beast roughly 35 million times a year.
• Olive oil can help in lowering cholesterol levels and decreasing the risk of heart complications.
• In a lifetime, the heart pumps about one million barrels of blood.
• In 1967, the first successful heart transplant was performed in Cape Town, South Africa.
• People that suffer from gum disease are twice as likely to have a stroke or heart attack.
• Most heart attacks occur between the hours of 8 and 9 AM.
• The human heart beast roughly 35 million times a year.
• At one time it was thought that the heart controlled a person’s emotions.
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• Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression than men in the United States.
• The human brain has about 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) neurons.
• From all the oxygen that a human breathes, twenty percent goes to the brain.
• People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.
• Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.
• It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.
• A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder.
• In America, the most common mental illness is Anxiety Disorders.
• Your brain is 80% water.
• Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day.
• The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes bone which is located in the ear.
• There are 54 bones in your hands including the wrists.
• The only bone fully grown at birth is located in the ear.
• The human face is made up of 14 bones.
• The chances of getting a cavity is higher if candy is eaten slowly throughout the day compared to eating it all at once and then brushing your teeth.
• If an identical twin grows up without having a certain tooth, the other twin will most likely also grow up with that tooth missing.
• Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.
• Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.
• Enamel is hardest substance in the human body.
• Although the outsides of a bone are hard, they are generally light and soft inside. They are about 75% water.
• Adult human bones account for 14% of the body’s total weight.
• In 2000 babies are born with a tooth that is already visible.
• Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
• Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete.
• The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and it’s hollow!
• Two million red blood cells die every second.
• There are approximately 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
• Seven percent of a humans body weight is made up of blood.
• In the early nineteenth century some advertisements claimed that riding the carousel was good for the circulation of blood.
• Each day 400 gallons of recycled blood are pumped through the kidneys.
• By donating just one pint of blood, four lives can be saved.
• Blood is such a good stain that Native Americans used it for paint.
• The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day.
• The average life span of a single red blood cell is 120 days.
• Blood accounts for about 8% of a human’s body weight.
• A woman has approximately 4.5 liters of blood in her body, while men have 5.6 liters.
• Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a human’s blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. That’s enough to go around the world twice.
• Half your body’s red blood cells are replaced every seven days.
• If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about 60,000 miles.