AMAZING
FACTS ABOUT HUMAN BODY
Body positivity is a growing concept that many people struggle with,
regardless of gender, age or race. However, the human body is full of surprises
and incredible processes that make up a person.
Here there are few
amazing facts about your body that can amaze you after reading till end.
v The brain is more active at night than during the day.
(Scientists
don't know yet why this is.)
v
Facial
hair grows faster than any other hair on the body.
v
The nail on the middle finger grows
faster than the other fingernails.
v Fingernails grow nearly four times faster
than toenails.
v The acid in your stomach is strong enough
to dissolve zinc. It doesn't destroy the stomach because the stomach walls
constantly renew it.
v Women's heart beat’s faster than men's. It's
probably due to many things such as body size, heart size and hormones.
v Your body is made of about 7
octillion atoms (that’s 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms).
v There are 37 trillion cells in our
body.
v Your skin’s outer layer sheds
every 2-4 weeks, amounting to roughly 0.7 kg of dead skin in a year.
v Cells in the inner lens of the
eye, muscle cells of the heart, and the neurons of the cerebral cortex are the
only cells that will be with you your entire life.
v You spend 10 per cent of the day
blinking.
v Eyes can distinguish between 2.3
and 7.5 million different colours.
v Nose can differentiate between 1
trillion different smells.
v Your fingers can feel a ridge as
small as 13 nanometers in size (7,500 xs smaller than the diameter of a human
hair).
v Without your pinky finger, you
would lose 50% of your hand’s strength.
v If you were to spread out all the
wrinkles in your brain, it would be about the size of a pillowcase.
v Your heart beats 100,000 times
per day, pumping 5.5 liters per minute, which adds up to about 3 million liters
of blood a year.
v Human
decomposition begins around 4 minutes after death, a process known as
‘self-digestion’ where your enzymes and bacteria eat you away.
v 3 to 5 lbs of your body is made
up of bacteria. Between 100 million to 1 billion bacteria can grow on each
tooth.
v In terms of compression strength,
the femur bone of a person weighing 83kg with US size 11 feet could withstand
the weight of 16,000 people standing on it at one time.
v If the entire DNA in your body
were uncoiled, it would stretch out to about 10 billion miles, which is from
Earth to Pluto and back.
