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Right, gang, it’s time to take a look at how amazing (and a bit freaky!) we all are! Your body is a wonderland. A weird, miraculous, disgusting, wonderland. Learn all about it with these interesting human body facts.Check out these 23 fascinating facts about our bodies…
1. Your mouth produces about one litre of saliva each day!
2. Your brain is sometimes more active when you’re asleep than when you’re awake.
3. Laid end to end, an adult’s blood vessels could circle Earth’s equator four times!
4. The word “muscle” comes from Latin term meaning “little mouse“, which is what Ancient Romans thought flexed bicep muscles resembled. 5. Bodies give off a tiny amount of light that’s too weak for the eye to see.
6. The average person has 67 different species of bacteria in their belly button.
7. You lose about 4kg of skin cells every year!
8. Babies don’t shed tears until they’re at least one month old. 9. Information zooms along nerves at about 400kmph!
10. The human heart beats more than three billion times in an average lifespan.
11. Your left lung is about 10 percent smaller than your right one.
12. Human teeth are just as strong as shark teeth.
13. Scientists estimate that the nose can recognise a trillion different scents.
14. Humans are the only species known to blush.
15. Your blood makes up about eight percent of your body weight.
16. Your sense of smell is around 10,000 times more sensitive than your sense of taste.
17. Around 80 per cent of what we think is taste is actually smell. Flavour, is a combination of taste and smell perception.
18. The brain uses over a quarter of the oxygen used by the human body.
19. The brain of an adult human weighs around 3 pounds (1.5 kg). Although it makes up just 2 per cent of the body’s weight, it uses around 20 per cent of its energy.
20.Your heart beats around 100,000 times a day, 365,00,000 times a year and over a billion times if you live beyond 30.
21. If you smoothed out all of the wrinkles in your brain, it would lay flat the size of a pillowcase.
22. The human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.
23. Embryos develop fingerprints three months after conception.