Miscellaneous Human Body
Facts
1. The average person expels flatulence 14 times each day.
2. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
3. It’s nearly impossible to tickle yourself.
4. Laughing and coughing creates more pressure on the spine than
walking or standing.
5. Like fingerprints, every person has a unique tongue print.
6. A pair of feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than
a pint of sweat a day.
7. A person can expect to breathe in about 45 pounds of dust over
his/her lifetime.
8. A person can live without food for about a month, but only a week
without water.
9. A person growth like being tall or short is not determined only by
the genes. Growth hormone also is responsible for it.
11. 10% of men and 8% of women are left-handed.
12. Your body has enough iron in it to make a nail 3 inches long.
13. Your body produces enough heat in only thirty minutes to boil a
half-gallon of water.
14. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day.
15. A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.
16. A human being can look forward to having sex an average of 2,580
times with five different partners.
17. A human body contains about 200,000 temperature detectors.
18. A human body has 500,000 touch detectors.
19. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it
is been decapitated.
20. Diabetes causes 6 deaths every minute and 1 in 20 deaths in the
world. Every year 3.2 million people in the world die from diabetes or related
causes.
21. In an average person, it takes 8 seconds for food to travel down
the food pipe, 3-5 hours in the small intestine and 3-4 days in the large
intestine.
22. In just 30 minutes, your body can produce enough heat to boil half
a gallon of water.
23. A sneeze generates a wind of 166 km/hr (100 mi/hr), and a cough
moves out at 100 kmh (60 mi/hr).
24. A womens heart beats faster than a mens.
25. About 10,000 human cells can fit on the head of a pin
26. About 80% of ultra-violet rays from the sun can get through cloud
and cause sunburn even on cloudy days.
27. About 500 million sperm mature every day in a normal male adult.
28. Almost 90 to 95% of diabetes is of type 2 or maturity onset type;
that affects people in their middle age. Type 1 or juvenile diabetes affects
70,000 children under the age of 15 years every year.
29. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
30. An adult is made up of around
7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms.
31. An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a
lifetime.
32. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
33. Approximately 75% of human waste is made of water.
34. Around 90% of the cells that make humans aren’t human in origin.
We’re mostly fungi and bacteria.
35. Astronauts cannot burp in space. There is no gravity to separate
liquid from gas in their stomachs.
36. Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your
dinner begin to eat you.
37. Women are born better smellers than men and remain better smellers
over life.
38. Your DNA includes the genes from at least eight retroviruses.
39. Only one person in two billion will live for more than 115 years
of life.
40. The current cost of treating diabetes and its complications in the
world is estimated at USD 215-375 billion.
41. The DNA helix measures 80 billionths of an inch wide.
42. The enzyme in the stomach that breaks down alcohol is produced
less in men than women.
43. Borborygmi is the noise or sound which our stomach makes when we
are hungry.
44. By the age of 60, most people will have lost about half their
taste buds.
45. By the time a woman has reached her 60’s, she will have released
around 450 baby making eggs.
46. Even small noises cause the pupils of the eyes to dilate.
47. Every atom in your body is billions of years old. Hydrogen, the
most common element in the universe and a major feature of your body, was
produced in the big bang 13.7bn years ago.
48. Every day an adult body produces 300 billion new cells.
49. Sneezes regularly exceed 100 mph.
50. Sneezing too hard can cause a rib fracture while suppressing a
sneeze can cause damage to the blood vessels of the head or neck.
51. Sometimes, when you have to pee, you can visibly see that your
bladder is bigger.
52. Taste buds are present inside the mouth and also at the roof of
the mouth.
53. Tears and mucus contain an enzyme (lysozyme) that breaks down the
cell wall of many bacteria.
54. The human spinal cord is 45 cm long in men and 43 cm long in
women.
55. The adrenal glands change size throughout life.
56. The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about
9,000 ‘lead’ pencils.
57. Seven out of ten people cross their left arm over their right.
58. Shivering is a way of trying to keep our body warm.
59. The width of your arm-span stretched out is the length of your
whole body.
60. There are about 13,500,00 neurons in the human spinal cord.
61. There are around 100 receptors in each of our fingertips.
62. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
63. The average person produces enough saliva in their lifetime to
fill 2 swimming pools.
64. The cells of taste buds are constantly being renewed, roughly on
every ten hours.
65. The cells of the heart and brain do not multiply through out their
lifetime.
66. The chemical elements that make up your body are worth around
US$160.
67. Crying alleviates stress and allows humans to decrease feelings of
anger and sadness.
68. Diabetes in Asians is five times the rate of the white population
69. Diabetes is a silent epidemic and according to WHO there are 246
million people in the world living with diabetes. This is almost 6% of the
world’s adult population.
70. Diabetes is the number one cause of kidney failure in the world.
Besides this every year it is responsible for 5% or 5 million blindness in
adults and one million limb amputations.
71. Drinking coffee prevents Parkinson’s disease.
72. During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two
swimming pools.
73. The ashes of a cremated person average about 9 pounds.
74. The atoms that make up your body are mostly empty space, despite
there being so many of them, without that space you would compress into a tiny
volume.
75. Eighty percent of people infected with the Ebola virus, will die
from this disease.
76. Every person has a unique tongue print.
77. Feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of
sweat a day.
78. Food is either cooled or warmed to a suitable temperature in the
mouth.
79. From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
80. Glabella is the space between your eyebrows.
81. Goose bumps on our skin are caused by pull of muscles attached to
hair follicles and make the hair upright.
82. Guys are more likely than girls (by a ratio of 3-to-2) to have bad
acne.
83. Hugging releases oxytocin, which helps to heal physical wounds,
and makes someone trust you more.
84. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for
pleasure.
85. Humans are bioluminescent and glow in the dark. The light that we
emit is 1,000 times weaker than our human eyes are able to pick up.
86. Humans are the best long distance runners on the planet. Better
than any four-legged animal.
87. Humans are the only mammal that cannot swallow and breathe at the
same time.
88. Humans are the only primates that don’t have pigment in the palms
of their hands.
89. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
90. Humans have the ability to differentiate about 10,000 odors.
91. Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
92. Identical twins have identical DNA but not identical fingerprints.
93. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.
94. If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
95. If uncoiled, the DNA in all the cells in your body would stretch
10 billion miles, from here to Pluto and back.
96. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is
produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
97. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have
produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
98. In order to taste something, our saliva needs to dissolve it (try
drying off your tongue and tasting something).
99. In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so
the tears can’t flow!
100. In your very own lifetime, you’ll produce enough spit to fill two
swimming pools.
101. India is the diabetes capital of the world. It is estimated that
currently there are 40 million people with diabetes in India and by 2025 this
number will swell to 70 million. This would mean every fifth diabetic in the
world would be an Indian.
102. Half a liter of water per day is lost through breathing.
103. Inside your belly button are thousands of bacteria that form an
ecosystem the size of an entire rainforest.
104. It is impossible to tickle ourselves.
105. Loneliness is physically painful.
106. Men produce about 10 million new sperm daily (approximately enough
to repopulate the entire planet in 6 months).
107. More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
108. Most people have lost fifty per cent of their taste buds by the
time they reach the age of sixty.
109. On an average, a persons left hand does 56% of typing.
110. On an average, the human growth hormone, which is responsible for
a person growth is produced at the rate of 500 microgram per day at the age of
twenty, 200 microgram per day at the age of forty and 25 microgram per day at
the age of eighty.
111. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
112. On average, we speak about 5,000 words per day.
113. Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress.
114. People are the only animals in the world who cry tears.
115. People under 30 years of age take in double the amount of oxygen
as people over 80 years of age.
116. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.
117. Sixty percent of the human body nerve ends in the forehead and the
hands.
118. The highest recorded body temperature in a human being was a fever
of 115.7 F (46.5 C).
119. The human body contains 30 amazing hormones, which regulates
activities like sleep, body temperature, hunger, and managing stress in times
of crisis and so on.
120. The human body has 4 million pain sensitive structures.
121. The human hand contains three main nerves, two major arteries and
27 different bones - more of the body is devoted to controlling the hands than
any other part of the body.
122. The human head is one-quarter of our total length at birth but
only one-eighth of our total length by the time we reach adulthood.
123. The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
124. The life span of an ovule is about 12 - 24 hours.
125. The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.
126. The middle part of the back is the least sensitive part of our
body.
127. The palms of the hands and soles of the feet contain more sweat
glands than other parts of the body.
128. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been
digested by a bee.
129. The sense of taste is the weakest of the five senses.
130. The soles of your feet contain more sweat glands and more
pressure-sensitive nerve endings per square inch than any other part of your
body.
131. The spinal cord, which controls over 10 billion nerve cells, is
less than two feet in length and its diameter is same as that of the index
finger.
132. There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human
being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.
133. There are more than 100 types of cancers; any part of the body can
be affected.
134. There is more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of
the United States and Canada combined .
135. Three hundred million cells die in the human body every minute.
136. The threshold pain of women is 9 times stronger than men.
137. U.S. park ranger Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck
by lightning the most times and surviving - 7 times between 1942 and 1977.
138. Vitamin C and E fights against Dementia.
139. Vitamin E protects the brain cells from damage caused by alcohol
consumption.
140. We all have tiny mites living in our eyelashes.
141. We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening.
142. We are about 70 percent water.
143. We are more likely to catch cold from a person by shaking his hand
than from his sneeze.
144. We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, manganese, phosphates,
nickel and silicon in our bodies.
145. We make around 1 to 1.6 liters of saliva a day.
146. We share 98.4% of our DNA with a chimp - and 70% with a slug.
147. When full, the human bladder can hold two pints of urine.
148. When put under the microscope, crying over grief, hope, or onions
all produced a unique tear.
149. Yawning brings more oxygen to the lungs.
150. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a
poisonous spider.
151. You are taller in the morning than in the evening.
152. You have about half-a-million sweat glands that produce about a
pint of sweat daily.
153. You’ll be about 1cm shorter when you go to bed at night compared
to when you wake up in the morning. Your cartilage in your spine slowly
compresses throughout the day.
154. Your body contains enough iron to make a spike strong enough to
hold your weight.
155. Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a
gallon of water to a boil.
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