- Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until they are 2 -6 years old.
- Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
- Babies are stronger than oxen. On a pound for pound basis, that is. For their size, babies are quite powerful and strong.
- When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop — even your heart!
- The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet.
- Heart beats some 37,000,000 times in a year. During your life it’s will beat some two-and-a-half billion times.
- We blink about 84 million times in a year.
- Humans body sheds and re-grow outer skin cells about every 27 days.
- Body’s strongest muscle is the tongue.
- An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
- The brain doesn’t feel pain. Even though the brain processes pain signals, the brain itself does not actually feel pain.
- Human brain is more active when we sleep.
- Nose remembers 50,000 scents. It is possible for your nose to identify and remember more than 50,000 smells.
- Even though it takes months after we are born to see teeth, they start growing about six months before we are born.
- Bones can self-destruct. It is possible for your bones to destruct without enough calcium intakes.
- We are taller in the morning. Throughout the day, the cartilage between the bones is compressed, making us about 1 cm shorter by day’s end.
- Being right-handed can prolong your life: If you’re right-handed, you could live up to nine years longer than a lefty.
- Only humans shed emotional tears: Every other animal that produces tears has a physiological reason for doing so.
- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. On average, nails on both the toes and fingers grow about one-tenth of an inch each month.
- The lifespan of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average.
- One must lose over 50% of your scalp hairs before it is apparent to anyone.
- Human hair is virtually indestructible. Aside from it’s flammability, human hair decays at such a slow rate that it is practically non-dis-integrative.
- You get a new stomach lining every three to four days. The mucus-like cells lining the walls of the stomach would soon dissolve due to the strong digestive acids in your stomach if they weren’t constantly replaced.
- Scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions. Liver is one of the body’s hardest working, largest and busiest organs.
- Our left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for the heart.
- The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.
- After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp. Try eating a smaller meal if you need to keep your hearing pitch perfect.
- By the age of 60, most people will have lost about half their taste buds. Older individuals tend to lose their ability to taste, and many find that they need much more intense flavoring in order to be able to fully appreciate a dish.
- Eyes are always the same size from birth but nose and ears never stop growing throughout their lives.
- The tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself. The outer layer of the tooth is enamel which is not a living tissue, since it’s not alive it can’t repair itself.
- The feet account for one quarter of all the human body’s bones. Of the two hundred or so bones in the body, the feet contain a whopping 52 of them.
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