| | | 15 Fun Facts You Probably Didn't Know About the Human Body:
1/ Beard hair grows the fastest. If a man never shaves, his beard can grow up to 10 meters by the end of his life.
2/ Our heart produces enough energy in one day to drive a truck 20 miles.
3/ The acid in our body is powerful enough to dissolve a razor blade.
4/ Our nose can register 50,000 different smells..
5/ Throughout our lives, we produce an average of 25,000 liters of saliva, or a large swimming pool.
6/ A human bone, on the same scale, is stronger than a steel bar and is composed of 31% water.
7/ Women blink about twice as much as men.
8/ A baby is proportionally more powerful than an ox.
9/ An adult's body is composed of approximately 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms.
10/ We use 200 muscles to take a single step.
11/ Blondes have about 30,000 more hairs than other hair colors.
12/ We have as much hair per square centimeter as a chimpanzee. Ours is just finer and lighter.
13/ Our eyes see the world upside down. However, our brain puts the images in the right direction.
14/ Our body contains about 2kg of bacteria.
15/ For mosquitoes to drain our blood in one bite, it would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes biting simultaneously. |
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