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

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

Do you realize what you are made of?

Bianca SparacinoOctober 31, 2016

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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