30 Things You Didn’t Know About The Human Body
Nathan Johnson
Published
03/22/2016
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It's easy to take our bodies for granted.
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Your body has enough iron in it to make a metal nail 3 inches long. -
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Have you ever felt calm while listening to a slow song? That's because our heartbeats mimic the music we listen to. -
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Each heart has its own electrical system, which means that as long as it receives oxygen, it'll continue to beat even if it's removed from the body. -
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On a daily basis, our hearts produce enough energy to drive a truck for 20 miles. -
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Sweat is odorless, and body odor actually comes from it mixing with bacteria on the skin. -
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If our eyes were digital cameras, they'd measure at 576 megapixels. -
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Your feet contain 1/4 of all the bones in your body. This means that the alignment of these bones affect the rest of the body. -
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Although smaller in size, a woman's heart beats faster than that of a man's, even while asleep. -
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The average person produces enough saliva to fill two swimming pools in their lifetime. -
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Humans shed nearly 600,000 particles of skin every hour, which adds up to 1.5 pounds annually. -
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Enough electricity is produced by the human brain when awake to power a small light bulb. -
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Our noses can remember about 50,000 different scents. -
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Adults excrete a daily average of 1.42 liters of urine. -
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Every single one of us have tiny mites called demodex living in our eyelashes. -
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The masseter, or jaw muscle, is the strongest muscle in the human body based on its weight. -
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There is no scientific evidence supporting the "fact" that shaving leads to hair growing back thicker. -
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Sleep is important. Getting less than 7 hours of sleep each night can reduce your life expectancy. -
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Our ears and noses never stop growing. -
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In your lifetime, your heart will pump enough blood to fill 200 train tank cars. -
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Babies have about 60 more bones than adults. As we grow, some of our bones fuse together to form one. -
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Wondering where all that dust comes from? About 75-90% of the dust in your home is your own dead skin cells. -
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Women with larger bottoms are more resistant to chronic illnesses. This fact, however, isn't meant to be compared with those women who are at a healthy thin weight ( they're just as healthy). -
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According to new research, our brains continue to develop well into our 40s. -
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Each of us have unique tongue prints, just as we do fingerprints. -
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An adult human body contains about 100,000 miles of blood vessels. -
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Our eyes can detect about 10 million different colors. -
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Our brains use 20% of all the oxygen and blood in our bodies. -
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The human body is made up of 7 octillion atoms, which is a 7 followed by 27 zeros. -
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Some people manage to hold their breath for five minutes, which is made possible when we fool the diaphragm. -
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With each step we take, we use up to 200 muscles, so don't think walking doesn't count as exercise.
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