Human Organs Facts

Human Organs Facts

1. Your stomach manufactures a new lining every three days to avoid digesting itself.

2. 1 in 10,000 people have their internal organs reversed or “mirrored” from their normal positions.

3. A human lung contains about 700 million alveoli.

4. The human gut contains about 1kg (2.2 lbs) of bacteria.

5. The human Liver consists of 100,000 tiny clusters called lobules.

6. The human liver performs 500 different functions.

7. The largest internal organ is the small intestine.

8. Each lung contains 300-350 million respiratory units called alveoli.

9. When you blush, your stomach lining also reddens.

10. Why doesn’t your stomach digest itself? That’s because your stomach cells are created faster than they can be destroyed.

11. You could remove a large part of your internal organs and survive.

12. You get a new stomach lining every three to four days.

13. For every 24 hours, in a healthy adult, more than a gallon of water containing over an ounce of salt is absorbed from the intestine.

14. Human kidneys have about 1 million nephrons that filters out liquids and wastes.

15. If the lining of mucus were to disappear from your stomach, your stomach would digest itself.

16. If your stomach acid got onto your skin it would burn a hole in it.

17. In a human body, the small intestine is 21 feet and the large intestine is 6 feet long.

18. Liver cells take several years to replace themselves.

19. Liver is the only organ of the body, which regenerates itself completely even after being removed completely.

20. Oesophagus/or food pipe, which is the passage for the food we eat to the stomach, is approximately 25 cm long.

21. On an average 1.7 liters of saliva produces each day.

22. On average, the human stomach holds about 2 liters of contents.

23. Our lungs inhale over two million liters of air every day, without even thinking.

24. The food will get in to the stomach even if one stands on their head.

25. The gastric acid in your stomach is so powerful that it is able to eat away an iron table in about 5 minutes.

26. The gastrointestinal tract is a 30-foot (9 m) tube running from your mouth to your anus.

27. The human stomach contains about 35 million small digestive glands.

28. The human tongue has 10,000 taste buds.

29. The liver is the largest and heaviest internal organ of the body and weighs about 1.6 kilos.

30. The surface area of a human lung is equal to that of a tennis court.

31. The surface of human tongue is covered with 100 of tiny structures called papillae.

32. There are more than 300,000,000 capillaries in your lungs and if they were stretched out tip to tip they would reach approximately the distance between Atlanta and LA.

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