25 Strange Facts About The Human Body
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Published
05/21/2014
Some of these will surprise you.
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1. The average person produces enough saliva in their lifetime to fill 2 swimming pools. -
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2. Every 60 seconds, your red blood cells do a complete circuit of your body. -
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3. Sometimes, when you have to pee, you can visibly see that your bladder is bigger. -
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4. Most babies are born with blue eyes, exposure to UV light brings out their true color. -
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5. Most westerners consume 50 tons of food and 50,000 liters of liquid in their lifetime. -
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6. It can take your finger and toenails 6 months to a year to grow an entirely new nail, from base to tip. -
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7. The muscles that control your eyes contract about 100,000 times a day. That's the equivalent of giving your legs a workout by walking 50 miles. -
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8. Over the course of your lifetime, you'll shed about 40lbs of skin. -
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9. Your brain uses about 20 percent of your oxygen and caloric intake. -
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10. In each kidney, there are 1 million filters that clean around 1.3 liters of blood every minute and push out close to 1.5 liters of urine every day. -
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11. Ovaries contain over 500,000 eggs, but only about 400 get the opportunity to create life. -
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12. Everyone has a completely unique smell, except for twins. -
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13. Why doesn't your stomach digest itself? Thats because your stomach cells are created faster than they can be destroyed. -
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14. You have about half-a-million sweat glands that produce about a pint of sweat daily. -
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15. Humans are extremely visual 90 percent of the information we gather from our surroundings is from our eyesight. -
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16. Its nearly impossible to tickle yourself. -
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17. Baby foreskin is often used as a skin graft for burn victims. -
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18. Your bones, pound for pound, are 4 times stronger than concrete. -
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19. Your skin is the largest organ in your body if an adult males skin were to be stretched out, it would cover 20 square feet. -
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20. In order to taste something, our saliva needs to dissolve it. Try drying off your tongue and tasting something. -
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21. Men produce about 10 million new sperm daily. Approximately enough to repopulate the entire planet in 6 months. -
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22. In just 30 minutes, your body can produce enough heat to boil half a gallon of water. -
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23. There are more than 300,000,000 capillaries in your lungs and if they were stretched out tip to tip they would reach over 1,500 miles. The distance between Atlanta and LA. -
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24. Frequent dreams are correlated with having a higher IQ. -
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25. You'll be about 1cm shorter when you go to bed at night compared to when you wake up in the morning. Your cartilage in your spine slowly compresses throughout the day.
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