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- The human brain is the fattest organ in the body and may consist of at least 60% fat.
- The largest organ in the body is the skin.
- Babies have 300 bones, but adults have 206.
- Humans shed and regrow their outer skin cells about every 27 days.
- If you laid all of your blood vessels end to end, they would stretch around the world more than twice.
- Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour.
- Your brain uses 20% of the total oxygen and blood in your body.
- You produce about a liter of mucus per day.
- Your brain is composed of 75% water.
- You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
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- Most people lose 50 to 100 hairs a day.
- The human embryo acquires fingerprints within three months of conception.
- People have the same number of neck vertebrae as giraffes.
- When awake, the human brain produces enough electricity to power a small light bulb.
- Your body has enough iron in it to make a nail 3 inches long.
- Everyone has unique tongue prints, just like fingerprints.
- A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
- A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
- Humans have a "diving reflex" that shuts down bodily functions when submerged in water to prevent drowning.
- Your body has more than 100 trillion cells.
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- Babies are born with reflexes for swimming and holding their breath.
- The length of your forearm from elbow to wrist is the same length as your foot.
- If you lined up all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life, they would measure over 98 feet long.
- Women blink more than men.
- The human body produces enough saliva during your lifetime to fill two swimming pools.
- Every person has a unique smell, except for identical twins.
- Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to.
- It is impossible to tickle yourself.
- Humans have stripes called Blaschko’s lines, invisible under normal conditions.
- Your body can't digest grass because it lacks the necessary enzymes.
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- Humans have nearly 300 bones at birth, but as they grow some of these bones fuse together. As a result, adults have only 206 bones.
- Your brain weighs about three pounds. Of that, the dry weight is 60% fat, making your brain the fattiest organ.
- You produce about 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
- Your body has about 5.6 liters (6 quarts) of blood. This blood circulates through the body three times every minute.
- A human baby has over 60 more bones than an adult.
- A quarter of your bones are in your feet.
- Your brain is almost 60% fat.
- Your eyes are the same size from birth but your nose and ears never stop growing.
- You blink over 10,000 times a day.
- One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
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- On average, a person at rest takes about 16 breaths per minute.
- The total weight of bacteria in your body is around 2 kilograms.
- About 1/3 of all the proteins in your body are collagen, which is present in skin, ligaments, tendons, and bones.
- The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps blood out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
- The human eye is so sensitive that if the Earth were flat, you could spot a candle flickering at night from up to 30 miles away.
- The total length of all the nerves in the human body is 75 kilometers.
- Humans and giraffes have the same number of neck vertebrae (seven).
- The strongest muscle in the human body is the masseter (jaw muscle).
- Your right lung can take in more air than your left.
- Your eyes blink approximately 4,200,000 times each year.