Interesting Informative Facts Part - 8

The human body is an amazing machine that contains many mysteries. Doctors and Scientists are still discovering new and amazing things about the human body. We compiled a list of little known facts about our bodies for your enjoyment  

The width of your arm span is the same as the length of your body, well very close anyway. It may be off a millimeter or two.

Your eyes never change size from birth to death. They remain the same size throughout your life. Eyes are blue at birth because the pigment melanin isn't completely in the eyes at this time and needs to be exposed to ultraviolet light to show true color. 

Did you know blondes have more hair ? People with blond hair typically have 146,000 hair follicles while the average has around 100,000. 

Smile more often, because frowning is harder to do. When you smile you use 7 muscles, and when you frown you use 43. When you smile, the world smiles with you!

Your teeth start to grow about 6 months before you are born. 1 in every 2,000 babies are born with a tooth visible. It may fall out as an extra tooth but can be part of their baby set. 

The human heart is a powerful organ. It operates with enough pressure to shoot blood up to 30 feet. Pictured is a human heart ready for transplant. 

Your lungs are pretty fascinating. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung because it needs to make room for your heart. Another fascinating lung fact is that the surface area of a lung equals the size of a tennis court. 

Human Body Facts.

Our body is a miracle that we simply take for granted. This week’s article is all about our truly amazing body. I hope the facts amuse you and hope you appreciate what you’ve got no matter the size, color or shape.



1. Almost 80% of the microwaves exerted from your cell phone, are absorbed by your head.





2. Like fingerprints, each person has a unique tongue print.





3. Four lives can be saved if you donate 0.45 liters of blood.





4. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does because your left lung is smaller to make room for your heart.






5. Dentists have recommended that you keep your toothbrush at least 2 meters away from a toilet (to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush).










6. An average person can live for about a month without ingesting any food, but can only live for a week without water.






7. Every minute 50,000 of the cells in your body shed and are replaced with new ones. This means that while you’ve been reading this sentence, you lost a whole lot of cells!





8. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus bi-weekly otherwise it will digest itself from all the acid.





9. You use an average of 43 muscles to frown and 17 muscles to smile.




10. The average human body contains enough: Sulphur to kill all the fleas on an average sized dog, Carbon to make 900 pencils, Potassium to fire a toy cannon, Fat to make 7 bars of soap, Phosphorus to make 2,200 match heads, and enough Water to fill a ten-gallon tank.

New Mind-Blowing Facts about Human Body

* Approximately 75% of human poop is made of water.


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


* It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.


* The average human dream lasts 2-3 seconds.


* Your brain is more active during the night than the day.


* One human hair can support 3kg.


* Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.


* The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.


* An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.


* It is impossible to lick your elbow.


* Your body requires 1000* 1500 calories per day just to simply survive (breathing, sleeping, eating).


* Every day an adult body produces 300 billion new cells.


* Scientists say the higher your I.Q. the more you dream.


* The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest it the male sperm.


* You use 200 muscles to take one step.


* Muscle cells live as long as you do while skin cells live less than 24 hours.


* A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.


* Your brain operates on the same amount of power that would light a 10* watt light bulb.


* There are 5 million hair follicles on an average adult.


* The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades.


* The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Brittanica.


* The white part of your fingernail is called the Lunula.


* There is enough iron in a human being to make one small nail.


* A shank is the part of the sole between the heel and the ball of the foot.


* The talus is the second largest bone in the foot.


* The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.


* A 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his foot in 1977.


* Your thumb is the same length of your nose.


* A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.


* Dogs and Humans are the only animals with prostates.


* It only takes 7lbs of of pressure to rip off your ears.

Highest Human Tower Competition Catalonia, Spain

Every summer in Catalonia, Spain, teams of "Castellers" can be seen competing against each other to see who can build the highest human tower.

Every catalan town has their own team or "Colla" made up of men, woman and children. Taking directions from a "Cap de colla" (Captain of the Colla), the Castellers form a solid foundation of packed bodies, linking arms and hands together in an intricate way that will carry the weight of several tones.

The foundation also serves to soften the fall in case the tower collapses, which is not uncommon. On this foundation up to eight more levels of people are built, each layer standing on the shoulders of the ones below. The top levels are made up of children and the Castell is completed when a young child waves to the crowd from the top of the pinnacle.

A Village with No Roads

A Village in Holland where in u cant find a single road...all transportation are done by boats alone.

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