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28 Awe-Inspiring Facts You Didn't Know About The Human Body

Drew Wilson

28 Awe-Inspiring Facts You Didn't Know About The Human Body

Do you realize what you are made of?

Bianca SparacinoOctober 31, 2016
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When you blush, the lining of your stomach blushes too.

— Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    Your brain uses 20% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    80% of the brain is water.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    Inside your belly button are thousands of bacteria that form an ecosystem the size of an entire rainforest.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    In 30 minutes, the human body gives off enough heat to bring a gallon of water to the boil.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    If the human brain were a computer, it could perform 38 thousand-trillion operations per second. The world's most powerful supercomputer, BlueGene, can manage only .002% of that.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    For every pound of fat or muscle gained, your body creates seven miles of new blood vessels.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    Sneezes regularly exceed 100 mph.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    By the age of 60, most people will have lost about half their taste buds.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    Your eyes are always the same size from birth but your nose and ears never stop growing.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood the number is reduced to 206.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    You use 200 muscles to take one step.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells about every 27 days.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    Three hundred million cells die in the human body every minute.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    In one day, your blood travels 12,000 miles around your body. That's four times the distance across the US from coast-to-coast.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren’t.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    Humans are the only animals to produce emotional tears.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    Everyone has a completely unique smell (except for twins, who smell the same)

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    You have no sense of smell when you're sleeping.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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    A baby is born without kneecaps. They appear between age 2 and 6.

    — Jenny Kellett, The Human Body: 150+ Amazing Facts

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