30 Interesting Facts About the Human Body You Should Know

The human body is a mystical creature and has continued to boggle humans since eons. To be honest, it can be a tiny bit freaky to explore the human body to its depths, however, we have come up with a list of 30 facts about the human body that we found intriguing!

1. The heart circulates your blood through your body about 1,000 times per day
   
   
2. Where is the smallest bone in your body? In your ears (say what !!!)
   
   
3. The probability of boys being color blind is more than girls
   
   
4. Adults have fewer taste buds than children
   
   
5. You think concrete is tough? Well human bones are 4X stronger than concrete
   
   
6. The cornea of the eye receives oxygen directly from the air making it the only part of the human body where there is no blood supply
   
   
7. Women’s heart beats faster than men’s
   
   
8. Right-handed people have a longer life span as compared to left-handed people
   
   
9. When we blush, our stomach also turns red
   
   
10. Healthy lungs are pink in color
    
    
11. If measured, your blood vessels are longer than 95,000 km
    
    
12. There are one hundred billion neurons inside a human brain
    
    
13. We, humans, use our brain more while we are asleep
    
    
14. Your brain can interpret pain signals but does not feel the actual pain
    
    
15. If you have a different sleep environment than usual, your brain interprets it as a threat and stays alert
    
    
16. The masseter muscle is the strongest muscle and is in your jaw
    
    
17. Our brain operates 100,000 times faster than the world’s fastest supercomputer
    
    
18. Only 7% of people in the world are left-handed
    
    
19. A person can lose weight by smelling apples and bananas (well, this is bananas!!!)
    
    
20. Our skin harbors 1000+ bacteria species
    
    
21. Our mouth produces approx. 1 ltr of saliva every day 
    
    
22. Our left lung is smaller than the right one
    
    
23. The brain makes up about 2 percent of body weight 
    
    
24. Humans are actually switching context when they think they are multi-tasking
    
    
25. There are 2,500,000 gigabytes of storage space in your brains
    
    
26. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
    
    
27. The air that we exhale while coughing moves at 60 miles per hour
    
    
28. Our eyes remain the same size they were at birth
    
    
29. Our nose and ears never stop growing
    
    
30. A person is 8mm taller in the morning than in the evening

This is our collection of the 30 top facts of the human body. Do let us know in the comments section below if you would like to read about facts on other topics. 

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