35 Astonishing Facts about Human Body
#1 Every tongue has a unique print. Remember this, next time whenever you show it to somebody!
#2 The weight of a hanging apple can be lifted with a hair. Although, Scientists did not specify the measurements of the apple.
#3 Within a person's mouth, the number of bacteria is equal to or more than that of individuals living on earth.
#4 The Halfmoon, that is present on your fingernails is known as Lunula. It is there to hide the blood vessels underneath the fingernail, and it is white in color because it is thicker than the rest of your nail.
If you can't see your Lunula or if it is really small, It is a sign that you could have slow digestion, slow metabolism, an overload of toxins in your body, and also signify that the thyroid is overactive.
You are looking at your fingernails right now aren't you? Yeah! me too.
#5 An incoming brain impulse speed is approximately 250 mph (400 km/h ).
#6 There are not just four different types of blood, as we think of. There are actually 29!
The most unusual of them is Bombay subtype, it is typical for a small community of families in Japan.
#7 Your blood travels a great distance. In just one day the blood in your body travels 12,000 miles (19300 km approx.) around your body.
#8 Men also have milk-producing glands, but the production is an abnormality to the male body. It happens when too much Prolactin hormone is released.
#9 A person breathes about 20,000 breaths daily.
#10 Almost everyone on earth has unique mites on their eyelashes named Demodex.
#11 up to 1 Crore (10 Million), different colors can be identified by a human eye. But not all of them does our brain remember.
#12 Our ears increase constantly at almost unimaginable pace across our lives - A fourth of a millimeter annually!
#13 Our heart pumps almost 35 million times a year. Yeah! you read correctly. 35 million times!
#14 Approximately 1 million skin cells lose the human body every day - approximately 2 Kilos (4.5 lbs) each year.
#15 1㎠ of your skin, includes about 100 sensors for pain.
#16 Some people may be very shocked by this, but 26% of men experience Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) too. During those times, a person becomes alert, cranky, starving, and also has stomach cramps.
In other words, he encounters the same symptoms that a woman gets around 7 to 14 days before their period.
#17 The average person consumes about 77,000 lbs (35 tons) of food during his/her life.
#18 An individual passes almost 5 years of their life blinking. Luckily, we can parallel do several other things!
#19 In our brains, a 100K chemical reaction occurs per second.
#20 Women cry an average of 30 to 64 times a year, and men cry just 6 to 17 times.
#21 Smiling stimulates 17 facial muscles while crying activates 43. So, keep smiling!
#22 The face of a man conserves his youthful appearance much longer than the face of a woman, all this because the skin of a man loses a much more slowly Collagen concentration as he is aged, which means that it is much resistant to wrinkles and tears.
#23 The cumulative length of all the nerves in all individuals is approximately 62,000 miles (100,000 km).
#24 Boys have fewer taste buds on the surface of their tongues than girls do.
#25 Each individual in the universe started as women. The sex of a person is determined by X and Y chromosomes. When two X chromosomes come together during fertilization, a girl is born; a boy is born, when X and Y chromosomes combine.
The Y chromosome is inactive for the first 5 to 6 weeks. The embryo continues developing into a female, until it begins to work.
#26 Men can detect far fewer color shades than women can and the explanation is very clear. Retinal cone cells are decided by color perception.
The data is located in the X chromosome and since women have two X chromosomes, their number of cone cells is double that of men.
#27 Women hearts always beat faster than men hearts and women blink twice as much as men. Know more
#28 The speed of your sneeze is 100 mph (140 km/h).
#29 A sensation of thirst happens when your body weights are equal to 1% of the water loss.
Over 5% of water loss may lead to passing out (fainting) and over 10% of water loss may lead to death from dehydration.
#30 The focusing muscles in your eyes get a workout. When you focus on objects throughout the day your eye muscles have to move around up to 100,000 times per day. That is a big number.
If you were to give your leg muscles that same workout you would need to walk for at least 50 miles.
#31 When you blush, your stomach blushes too. When you get embarrassed or if you start to feel overwhelmed in a crowd it is not uncommon for you to blush. When you get embarrassed your sympathetic nervous system starts to increase the blood flow in your body and it fills your face.
It also releases adrenaline which prepares your body for a stressful situation this causes your blood vessels to dilate, which speeds up the blood flow. This is what causes your face to turn red. But you might not know though is that the inside of your stomach also turns red. The blood flow is sent to this area quickly when your face turns red so do your insides.
#32 Humans are the best long-distance runners on the planet. We can run further than any four-legged animals on the planet.
We are so good at running that thousands of years ago, when we spotted our prey, we would chase them. We would not throw anything at them we would just chase them until they dropped and died of exhaustion. We were always strong to outrun our prey and then eat.
#33 The human body is hot. If you have ever worked hard outside during the summer you understand what it is like to sweat the amount of body heat that is given off in 30 minutes on a hot day.
It is hot enough to boil water but, this does not mean that you can come inside after a long-time day's work and boil water for your pasta right there on your thighs. Your body has specific ways of cooling itself down so, you do not become dangerously hot.
#34 An average person can hold their breath for about two minutes.
#35 We have more than five senses. Most people know that we have the five senses touch, sight, sound, smell, and taste. What you might not know is we have 15 other senses they include pain, balance, temperature, internal senses for fullness, thirst, suffocation, direction, time, and pressure among others.
The next time someone tells you to use your senses you could ask which one of the 15 should I be using.
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