Interesting facts about Humans
- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- It is impossible to lick your elbow.
- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
- You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
- We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.
- There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
- The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
- The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.
- Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.
- The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
- You breathe about 10 million times a year.
- The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
- The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
- A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in warm water for two minutes.
- The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
- 25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
- A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.
- Humans comprise around 70% water.
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