Weird Facts about the Human Body

Did you know that your nose can remember up to 50,000 different scents?

The human body contains enough carbon to make 900 pencils.

Your stomach produces a new layer of digestive mucus every two weeks to protect itself from its own acid.

Human bones are ounce for ounce stronger than steel.

Your brain generates enough electricity to power a small light bulb.

Your tongue is the strongest muscle in your body relative to its size.

The average person will shed about 40 pounds of skin in their lifetime.

The human body has enough iron in it to make a small nail.

Your eyes can distinguish up to 10 million different colors.

If all the blood vessels in your body were laid out end to end, they would circle the Earth four times.

The human heart can create enough pressure to squirt blood up to 30 feet.

You are taller in the morning than in the evening due to the compression of the spinal discs throughout the day.

Humans are the only animals with chins.

Your teeth are as unique as your fingerprints.

Your skin is the largest organ of your body, weighing about 8 pounds.

By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beaten approximately 2.5 billion times.

You are born with 300 bones, but by the time you are an adult, you only have 206.

Human feet have 52 bones, accounting for about one-fourth of all the bones in the body.

The average person produces enough saliva in their lifetime to fill two swimming pools.

Weird Facts about the Human Body part 2

Your liver can regenerate itself if part of it is removed, making it the only organ in the body capable of this.

The human brain is composed of about 75% water.

Your hair is the fastest growing tissue in your body, second only to bone marrow.

The surface area of your lungs is roughly the same as a tennis court.

Your blood travels about 12,000 miles per day within your body.

Your nose can detect around one trillion different smells.

The human brain is more active at night than during the day.

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

The human stomach can break down metal, but it cannot digest corn.

Humans are the only animals that produce emotional tears.

The average person blinks about 28,000 times per day.

Your body is constantly creating new cells at a rate of about 25 million per second.

Your appendix, often considered useless, actually harbors good bacteria that can help with digestion.

Human babies have over 300 bones at birth.

Your fingernails grow faster than your toenails.

The strongest muscle in your body is your masseter, responsible for chewing.

Your brain has a memory capacity equivalent to 2.5 petabytes or 300 years of TV shows.

The human body contains enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.

The color of your eyes is determined by the amount and pattern of melanin in your iris.

Your skin sheds about 30,000 to 40,000 dead skin cells every minute.

Your thumb has its own pulse.

Your skeleton accounts for about 14% of your body weight.

Human bones are 4 times stronger than concrete.

The human eye can distinguish about 10 million different shades of color.

Your brain can process information as fast as 120 trillion operations per second.

Your body has enough iron to make a 3-inch nail.