Human Nose and Smelling Facts

Human Nose and Smelling Facts

1. Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.

2. Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

3. The nerve cells present in the nose, allows us to smell and regenerates through out ones life.

4. We breathe 13 pints of air every minute.

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

6. Children have better sense of smell than adults.

7. You breathe in about 7 quarts of air every minute.

8. Women have better sense of smell than men.

9. You have no sense of smell when you’re sleeping.

10. You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.

11. The human sense of smell has the ability to identify the chemical smell of an object in one part per trillion of air.

12. If human sense of smell is affected, sense of taste is also affected as the brain interprets signals from the nose and tongue.

13. Everyone has a completely unique smell (except for twins).