Amazing Facts About Human Body

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1. Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

2. Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour.

3. An adult human being is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms.

4. A human baby has over 60 more bones than an adult.

5. There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in an adult human body.

6. An average person produces about 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.

7. Your body has enough iron in it to make a metal nail 3 inches long.

8. We all have tiny mites living in our eyelashes.

9. The strongest muscle in the human body is the masseter (jaw muscle).

10. Sweat itself is odorless. It's the bacteria on the skin that mingles with it and produces body odor.

11. Ears and Nose never stop growing.

12. Similar to fingerprints, everyone also has a Unique Tongue Print.

13. When awake, the human brain produces enough electricity to power a small light bulb.

14. Human Bones are ounce for ounce, stronger than steel.

15. People with blue eyes have a higher alcohol tolerance.

16. We spend about 10% of our waking hours with our eyes closed, blinking.

17. If the human eye was a digital camera it would have 576 megapixels.

18. All of the bacteria in our body collectively weighs about 4 pounds.

19. There are more than 100 types of cancers; any part of the body can be affected.

20. Your bones are composed of 31% water.





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