Our body is so amazing. Time and time again, we discover something new. Did you know that scientists just discovered a new organ called the mesentry in 2017?!?! 😱 Yeap. Right. Let’s continue checking out the other intriguing human body facts below.
- Human bodies produce 70 kg of ATP (a molecule that stores energy, permitting us to do nearly everything the body does) per day.
- A human body has a bone just after the spine ends, which helps prove that humans once had tails (possibly).
- A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.
- A human’s scent membrane in the nose is about the size of a postage stamp. A dog’s is about the size of a handkerchief. It’s olfactory lobe is also 4 times that of a human.
- 1.7 litres of saliva is produced each day. In Discovery Channel, its a quart.
- 10% of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
- 10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria.
- 11% of the world is left-handed.
- 25% of a human’s bones are in the hands and feet.
- 1 out of every 113 people in the world died last year.
- The lunula is the half-moon shaped pale area at the bottom of finger nails.
- You cannot sink into quicksand. By making small circles with each part of your body, water is re-introduced between the sand and clay particles, reducing the density and making it easier for someone to heave you out.
- A person who is lost in the woods and starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes. Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.
- A recent study indicates when men crave food, they tend to crave fat and salt. When women crave food, they tend to desire chocolate.
- A scientist who weighed people immediately before and after death concluded that the human soul weighs 21 gms.
- About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you.
- All the chemicals in a human body combined are estimated to be worth about 6.25 euro.
- Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to improper use of equipment designed only for right handed people. (A human body fact that makes left handers sad. 😓)
- At age seventy, 73% of men are still potent. (Human body facts for grandpa 👴)
- A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph. BTW, if you’re coughing, try vinegar.
- A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
- A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
- A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day.
- A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
- A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
- A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
- According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
- According to the Kinsey Institute, the biggest erect penis on record measures 13.5 inches. The smallest tops off at 1 3/4 inches.
- After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
- An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
- An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
- An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day. If you haven’t yet, check out these interesting toilet signs.
- An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
- Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
- Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
- Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people.
- Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide. (Scary human body facts 😨)
- By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
- By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)
- Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
- Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
- Every person has a unique tongue print.
- Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
- Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
- Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
- Fingerprints serve a function – they provide traction for the fingers to grasp things.
- Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
- Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour – about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.
- Humans shed and re-grow outer skin cells about every 27 days – almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime.
- If it were removed from the body, the small intestine would stretch to a length of 22 feet.