Fun Human Body Facts
- The smallest human penis ever recorded was just 5/8 of an inch long!
- The right lung takes in more air than the left!
- The most pushups ever recorded in a day was 46,001!
- The lens of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life!
- The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet!
- When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go!
- We blink 25 times per minute!
- Unlike dogs, pigs, and some other mammals, humans can't taste water!
- There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world!
- The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body!
- You mostly breathe from only one nostril at a time!
- You inhale about 700,000 of your skin flakes each day!
- You have no sense of smell when you're sleeping!
- While 7 men in 100 suffer from color blindness, only 1 woman in 1,000 suffers from it!
- When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red as well!
- Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn!
- Your heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood each day!
- Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
- Your hair grows faster in the morning than at any other time of day!
- The body creates and kills 15 million red blood cells per second!
- The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45% when a person looks at something pleasing!
- We are born with 350 bones and will die with 206!
- Your skin is actually an organ!
- The skeleton continues to grow until age 35 and then it starts to shrink!
- Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
- Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself!
- It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circulate the entire body!
- Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death!
- There is a thin film of bacteria on your tongue if it appears white!
- The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep at night!
- The lifespan of a taste bud is 10 days!
- It would take 800 marijuana joints to kill a person, but the cause of death would be carbon monoxide poisoning!
- Every cigarette smoked cuts at least 5 minutes of life on average!
- The male fetus is capable of attaining an erection during the last trimester!
- Men get hiccups more often than women!
- There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way!
- On average, there are 100 billion neurons in the human brain!
- It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest!
- The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times per year!
- Every time you sneeze, some of your brain cells die!
- Blueberry juice boosts memory!
- Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell!
- The tongue is the only muscle that is attached from one end only!
- Humans forget 90% of their dreams!
- During thinking, we use about 35% of our brains!
- The percentage of people dreaming in black and white decreased after the spread of color TV!
- Approximately 2/3 of people tilt their head to the right when they kiss!
- Some Chinese believe that swinging the arms cures headaches!
- Laughter is a proven way to lose weight!
- According to a Kinsey survey, 75% of men ejaculate within 3 minutes after penetration!
- Your foot is the same length as your forearm!
- You can't hum if you plug your nose and close your mouth!
- As of May, 2010, 1.2 billion people still defecate in the open!
- On average, a woman's heart beats faster than a man's!
- The skin of an average woman weighs 6.61 pound, and the skin of an average man weighs 11.02 pounds!
- Dutch, on average, are the tallest people!
- Kissing is healthier than shaking hands!
- The human brain is 80% water!
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
- The human heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
