30 Fun Facts About Human Body
- Adult lungs have a surface area of around 70 square meters
- Your left and right lungs aren't exactly the same. The lung of a left side of your body it divided into two lobes while the lung of your right side is divided into three. The left is smaller, giving the heart more room .
- The human lung contains approximately 1500 miles of airways and more than 300 million alveoli.
- The average person inhales about 11,000 liters of air daily.
- Your nose and ears continue growing through out your life.
- Your sense of smell is around 10,000 times more sensitive than your sense of taste.
- About 80% of what we think is a taste is actually a smell. taste is a combination of taste and odor perception
- The brain uses more than a quarter of the oxygen used by the human body.
- The adult brain weights about 1.5kg. It makes up only 2% of body weight, but uses about 20% of energy.
- Smooth all wrinkles in the brain will flatten it to the size of pillowcase.
- Your heart beats about 100,000 times a day, 365 million times a year, and more than a billion times by the time you reach your 30s [ group ] you may be familiar with the simplified ‘’ABO'' system. Which divides blood types into O, A, B, and AB.
- The average heart of a healthy adult beats about 75 times per minute.
- In a year, the human heart pumps enough blood to fill the Olympic pool.
- when all the blood vessels in human body are lined up, they are surrounded by each other.
- An adult skin weights around 3 to 4 kgs.
- Skin is the human body's largest organ.
- An eyelash lives for about 150 days before it falls out.
- The thigh bone is the longest bone in the body.
- Humans are the only animals with chins.
- Blushing is caused by rush of Adrenaline.
- The human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.
- An average sized man eats about 33 tons of food his/her life time which is about the weight of six elephants.
- You can't breathe and swallow at the same time.
- You carry on average about 4 pounds of bacteria around in your body.
- In camera terms, the human eye is about 576 megapixels.
- The left side of your brain controls the right side of your brain controls and right side of your brain controls the left side of your body.
- If you spread your skin , it would measure around 20 square feet in size , about the same size as a child's bedsheets.
- Teeth are considered part of the skeletal system , but are not counted as bones.
- More than half of your bones are located in the hands, wrist, feet , and ankles.
- Your bones are stronger than steel. A block of bone the size of a matchbox can support up to 18,000 pounds of weight.
