Body Facts: 97 Facts about Your Body ←FACTSlides→

Human fingers can feel objects as small as 13 nanometers. If your finger was the size of the Earth, you would feel the difference between houses and cars.

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The highest recorded body temperature in a human being was a fever of 115.7°F (46.5°C).

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The human heart is not on the left-hand side of the body; it's in the middle.

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Half of your genes describe the complex design of your brain, with the other half describing the organization of the other 98% of your body.

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Your taste buds are replaced every 10 days.

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The average age

of a

human fat cell

is 10 years.

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There is no scientific evidence that shaving or waxing will make your hair come back thicker.

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If your stomach acid

got onto your skin

it would burn

a hole in it.

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1 in 10,000 people has their internal organs reversed or "mirrored" from their normal positions.

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

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Your lungs

can hold up to

5 minutes

worth of oxygen.

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Scars continue to look the same year after year because, while skin cells are replaced periodically, the underlying collagen is not.

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The human body emits upwards of 10^6 biological particles per hour, creating a detectible microbial cloud into surrounding indoor air.

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A nanometre is about as much as your nails grows every second.

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Men's Testicles hang between the legs to keep cool because sperm dies at body temperature.

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1 out of every 200 people have an extra rib.

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Your mouth is made of the same skin cells as a vagina.

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Muscle comes from the Latin musculus, which means "little mouse," because a flexed muscle was thought to resemble a mouse.

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While receiving a single tattoo temporarily weakens your immune system, receiving several tattoos over time could strengthen it.

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Liars blink less frequently than normal during the lie, and then speed up to around eight times faster than usual afterwards.

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You spend 10% of your waking life blinking.

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Some non-redheaded men have red beards because they have one copy of the MC1R gene. Two copies would make them fully redheads.

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More than 3% of people are born with phonagnosia: they can't recognize the voices of familiar people.

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A scientist cracked his knuckles on one hand for over 50 years to prove it did not cause Arthritis.

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Eating too much meat can accelerate your body's biological age.

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You can burn 20% more fat by exercising in the morning on an empty stomach.

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Cornflakes have more genes than people do.

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Humans have no more genes than worms.

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Our bodies consist of 60 out of 118 confirmed elements in the periodic table or 50.8% of the periodic table.

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Sex burns 3.6 calories a minute.

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A strong cough forces air out of the airways at speeds up to 1000 km/h, almost as fast as the speed of sound (1234 km/h).

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Your brain can recognize a sound 10 times faster than the blink of an eye.

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It takes about 0.2 seconds for your brain to understand the light that reaches your eye.

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Bras make breasts sag, according to a French study published in 2013.

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A woman's vaginal muscles can take up to 6 months to get back to their normal shape and size after childbirth.

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One prevailing theory as to why butt hair exists is that there's simply

no significant evolutionary pressure against butt hair.

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Hearing is the fastest human sense. A person can recognize a sound in as little as 0.05 seconds.

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Breastfeeding actually changes the way a mother's brain works, making her more attuned to the child's crying.

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Ancient Greeks investigated animal structure and described the difference between arteries and veins around 500 BCE.

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The cost of sequencing a human genome went from US$100 million in 2007 to about US$3,000 in 2012.

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It takes about 0.2 seconds for your brain to recognize something touching your hand or foot.

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We can't digest grass because our bodies don't have what it takes to break down the cellulose found in the plant.

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A study found that right-handed individuals have better oral hygiene and the lower incidence of caries because of their better manual dexterity and brush efficiency.

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The big toe carries the most weight of all the toes, bearing about 40% of the load.

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To enlist in the U.S. army, you have to have all ten of your toes intact.

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Until the Renaissance, understanding of human anatomy was based on the dissection of animals, with human autopsies considered an affront in virtually all cultures.

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Inner speech can clock in at 4,000 words per minute, 10X faster than verbal speech.

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Some people never develop fingerprints.

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Beer and vaginas have almost the same acidity levels, with an average pH of 4.5.

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The iron in our blood and the calcium in our bones come from ancient explosions of giant stars.

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Borborygmus

is the scientific name

for when your

stomach growls.

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A transplanted great toe decreases in size up to one third when transplanted to the hand.

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Your hair contains traces of gold.

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Skulls are like fingerprints. Frontal sinus print is found to be unique to a particular individual.

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Oxford University discovered if someone prods one of your middle toes while your eyes are shut, most people can't tell which toe is being touched.

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80% of what we learn is through our eyes.

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Eating garlic improves your body odour.

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You don't gain and lose fat as your weight fluctuates. Your fat cells just bigger or smaller.

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Body Facts 97 Facts about Your Body

Body Facts
97 Facts about Your Body