Interesting Human Body Facts

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.

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v The brain is more active at night than during the day.

(Scientists don't know yet why this is.)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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