Amazing Facts About the Human Body

Interesting Facts About the Human Body

These interesting human body facts will educate you about how your body responds to outside influences, what goes on within your body, why certain spasms or reactions take place and more.

1. Average life of a taste bud is said to last up to 10 days.
2. A cough comes out from one's mouth at the speed of 60 miles/hour.
3. The human thigh bone is stronger than concrete. Here are some more skeletal system facts. You'll surely find it as a good read.
4. Women blink twice as much as men do.
5. Cow milk takes one hour to break down in the human stomach.
6. Children grow at a higher rate during the springtime.
7. Blondes have more hair compared to those with dark hair.
8. When the human body dries up, it creates an illusion that makes one think that hair and nails still grow after death.
9. When the brain suffers from a traumatic injury like from an infection, accident or stroke, some people develop 'alien hand syndrome'. This syndrome causes one to feel no sensation in either hand, losing the ability to control its movements. It feels like the hand has a mind of its own and isn't a part of the body, and can randomly play out functions like tearing up one's clothes or grabbing at items. Here we bring you some intriguing facts about nervous system.
10. A human can survive without food intake, but not without sleep.
The human lung contains around 3000 million tiny blood vessels known as capillaries. If these blood vessels were laid end to end they could stretch over an area of 1500 miles.
Skin is the largest organ in the human body. The skin of an adult man can cover an area of approximately 20 sq. ft
Talking about the cells, the largest cell in the human body is the female egg, while the smallest cell is the male sperm.
A man's testicles produce around 10 million sperm cells every day. These are enough to repopulate the entire world within a period of 6 months
Every one knows that the human brain is very sharp, but not many people know that a single cell of the human brain has the capacity to store as much information as the information in 5 Encyclopedia Britannica's.
One of the most amazing facts about the human body is that it can give off heat enough to boil a gallon of water within half an hour.
Although the human nose is not as sensitive as dogs, it can remember around 50,000 different scents with ease.
Each of our fingernails and toenails take around 6 months to grow from its base to the tip.

Useless Facts About the Human BodyIf the amazing facts about the human body weren't enough, here are some more interesting facts about it. They may not be of much use for us, but that doesn't mean they are not interesting.

• Each square inch of human skin has approximately 32 million bacteria on it. Wait! You don't need to panic as most of them are harmless.
• Skin shedding is not restricted to animals, human beings also shed copious amounts of skin in form of skin flakes. In fact, every individual sheds around 40 lbs of skin throughout their lifetime.
• There are around 500,000 sweat glands on a pair of human feet, which can produce around a pint of sweat everyday.
• Although, all the organs of human body stop growing after we cross a particular age, the ears and nose continue growing.
• Interestingly enough, an average individual produces around 25,000 quarts of saliva in his lifetime. That can fill two average sized swimming pools.