30 Things You Didn’t Know About The Human Body
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It's easy to take our bodies for granted.
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1. Your body has enough iron in it to make a metal nail 3 inches long.
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2. Have you ever felt calm while listening to a slow song? That's because our heartbeats mimic the music we listen to.
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3. Each heart has its own electrical system, which means that as long as it receives oxygen, it'll continue to beat even if it's removed from the body.
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4. On a daily basis, our hearts produce enough energy to drive a truck for 20 miles.
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5. Sweat is odorless, and body odor actually comes from it mixing with bacteria on the skin.
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6. If our eyes were digital cameras, they'd measure at 576 megapixels.
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7. Your feet contain 1/4 of all the bones in your body. This means that the alignment of these bones affect the rest of the body.
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8. Although smaller in size, a woman's heart beats faster than that of a man's, even while asleep.
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9. The average person produces enough saliva to fill two swimming pools in their lifetime.
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10. Humans shed nearly 600,000 particles of skin every hour, which adds up to 1.5 pounds annually.
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11. Enough electricity is produced by the human brain when awake to power a small light bulb.
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12. Our noses can remember about 50,000 different scents.
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13. Adults excrete a daily average of 1.42 liters of urine.
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14. Every single one of us have tiny mites called demodex living in our eyelashes.
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15. The masseter, or jaw muscle, is the strongest muscle in the human body based on its weight.
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16. There is no scientific evidence supporting the "fact" that shaving leads to hair growing back thicker.
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17. Sleep is important. Getting less than 7 hours of sleep each night can reduce your life expectancy.
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18. Our ears and noses never stop growing.
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19. In your lifetime, your heart will pump enough blood to fill 200 train tank cars.
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20. Babies have about 60 more bones than adults. As we grow, some of our bones fuse together to form one.
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21. Wondering where all that dust comes from? About 75-90% of the dust in your home is your own dead skin cells.
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22. Women with larger bottoms are more resistant to chronic illnesses. This fact, however, isn't meant to be compared with those women who are at a healthy thin weight ( they're just as healthy).
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23. According to new research, our brains continue to develop well into our 40s.
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24. Each of us have unique tongue prints, just as we do fingerprints.
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25. An adult human body contains about 100,000 miles of blood vessels.
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26. Our eyes can detect about 10 million different colors.
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27. Our brains use 20% of all the oxygen and blood in our bodies.
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28. The human body is made up of 7 octillion atoms, which is a 7 followed by 27 zeros.
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29. Some people manage to hold their breath for five minutes, which is made possible when we fool the diaphragm.
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30. With each step we take, we use up to 200 muscles, so don't think walking doesn't count as exercise.
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