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Man is a unique creation. All the capabilities of the human body are still unknown. And those that we learn about from scientific research are amazing and make us think. We have collected 103 facts about the human body that will delight and surprise you!
- The only part of the body that does not have a blood supply is the cornea of the eye. It receives oxygen directly from the air.
- The capacity of the human brain exceeds 4 terabytes.
- Up to seven months, the baby can breathe and swallow at the same time.
- Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
- When you sneeze, all body functions stop, even the heart.
- A nerve impulse from the brain moves at a speed of 274 km/h.
- One human brain generates more electrical impulses in one day than all the world's phones combined.
- The average human body contains enough sulfur to kill all the fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, and enough water to fill a 50 liter barrel.
- The human heart pumps 48 million gallons of blood in its lifetime.
- 50,000 cells in your body are dying and being replaced by new ones as you read this sentence.
- The embryo acquires fingerprints at the age of 3 months.
- Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
- Humans are the only creatures that sleep on their backs.
- Right-handed people live on average nine years longer than left-handed people.
- About two-thirds of people tilt their heads to the right when kissing.
- A person forgets 90% of his dreams.
- The total length of blood vessels in the human body is approximately 100,000 kilometers.
- In spring, the respiratory rate is on average one third higher than in autumn.
- By the end of life, a person remembers on average 150 trillion bits of information.
- 80% of the human body's heat leaves the head.
- When you blush, your stomach turns red too.
- Thirst occurs when water loss equals one percent of body weight. A loss of more than 5% can lead to fainting, and more than 10% can lead to death from desiccation.
- There are at least 700 enzymes working in the human body.
- On average, a 4-year-old child asks 450 questions a day.
- In addition to humans, koalas also have unique fingerprints.
- Only 1% of bacteria cause illness in humans.
- All the people on the planet can be comfortably placed in a cube with a side of 1,000 meters.
- The scientific name for the navel is umbilicus.
- The tooth is the only part of the human body that is incapable of self-healing.
- The average time it takes a person to fall asleep is 7 minutes.
- A right-handed person chews most of the food on the right side of the jaw, and vice versa, a left-handed person chews on the left.
- Only 7% of people in the world are left-handed.
- The aroma of apples and bananas helps the body lose weight.
- The length of hair on the head grown by the average person over the course of a lifetime is 725 kilometers.
- Among people who can move their ears, only one third can move one ear.
- The average person swallows 8 small spiders in their lifetime.
- The total weight of bacteria living in the human body is 2 kilograms.
- 99% of all calcium in the body is found in the teeth.
- Human lips are hundreds of times more sensitive than fingertips.
- A real kiss increases your heart rate to 100 beats per minute or more.
- The absolute strength of the masticatory muscles on one side is 195 kilograms.
- During a kiss, 278 different cultures of bacteria are transmitted from one person to another. Fortunately, 95% of them are harmless.
- Parthenophobia is the fear of virgins.
- Tooth enamel is the hardest tissue produced by the human body.
- If you collect all the iron contained in the human body, you will only get a small screw for a watch.
- There are more than 100 different viruses that cause a runny nose.
- A kiss of sufficient length is much better than chewing gum at normalizing acidity in the oral cavity.
- You can lose 150 calories per hour by hitting your head against a wall.
- Man is the only representative of the animal world capable of drawing straight lines.
- During a lifetime, a person's skin changes approximately 1000 times.
- A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day drinks half a cup of tar a year.
- Women blink approximately 2 times less often than men.
- The human body contains only 4 minerals: apatite, aragonite, calcite and cristobalite.
- A real, passionate kiss produces the same chemical reactions in the brain that skydiving and shooting with a pistol.
- Men are considered dwarfs if their height is below 130 cm, women - below 120 cm.
- Fingernails grow about 4 times faster than toenails.
- People with blue eyes are more sensitive to pain than others.
- Nerve impulses in the human body travel at a speed of approximately 90 meters per second.
- In the human brain, 100,000 chemical reactions occur in one second.
- Children are born without kneecaps. They appear only at the age of 2-6 years.
- If one of the identical twins is missing a particular tooth, as a rule, the other twin will also be missing the same tooth.
- The surface area of human lungs is approximately equal to the area of a tennis court.
- On average, a person spends 2 weeks kissing in his entire life.
- Blondes grow a beard faster than brunettes.
- Leukocytes in the human body live 2-4 days, and red blood cells - 3-4 months.
- The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
- The size of a person's heart is approximately equal to the size of his fist. The weight of an adult human heart is 220-260 grams.
- From the moment of birth, there are already 14 billion cells in the human brain, and this number does not increase until death. On the contrary, after 25 years it decreases by 100 thousand per day. In the minute you spend reading a page, about 70 cells die. After 40 years, brain degradation accelerates sharply, and after 50, neurons (nerve cells) dry out and brain volume decreases.
- At birth, a child’s body contains about 300 bones; in adulthood, there are only 206.
- The human small intestine during life is about 2.5 meters long. After his death, when the muscles of the intestinal wall relax, its length reaches 6 meters.
- The right lung of a person holds more air than the left.
- An adult takes approximately 23,000 breaths (and exhalations) per day.
- The smallest cells in a man's body are sperm cells.
- There are about 40,000 bacteria in the human mouth.
- There are about 2,000 taste buds in the human body.
- The human eye is capable of distinguishing 10,000,000 shades of color.
- The chemical compound responsible for the ecstasy of love (phenylethylamine) is present in chocolate.
- The human heart creates pressure that is enough to raise the blood to the level of the 4th floor.
- A person burns more calories while sleeping than while watching TV.
- Children grow fastest in the spring.
- Every year, more than two thousand left-handers die due to errors in the operation of mechanisms designed for right-handers.
- It turns out that every three hundred men have the opportunity to satisfy themselves orally.
- A person uses 17 muscles when he smiles and 43 when he frowns.
- By age 60, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
- As you know, people are animals too. However, we are the only ones among them who can copulate face to face.
- When a person flies on an airplane, the rate of hair growth doubles.
- One percent of people can see infrared and one percent can see ultraviolet light.
- If you are locked in a completely enclosed room, you will die from carbon dioxide poisoning, not from lack of air.
- On average, a person spends two weeks of his life standing at a traffic light.
- According to statistics, only one person in 2 billion crosses the threshold of 116 years.
- A normal person laughs five times a day.
- The average person speaks 4,800 words in 24 hours.
- The retina inside the eye covers about 650 square mm and contains 137 million light-sensitive cells: 130 million rods for black-and-white vision and seven million cones for color vision.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- In the morning a person is about 8 millimeters taller than in the evening.
- The focusing muscles of the eye move 100,000 times a day. In order for the leg muscles to make the same number of contractions, you need to walk 80 kilometers (50 miles) a day.
- The average person produces almost a liter of sweat per day.
- A cough is an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds of up to 60 mph.
- According to German researchers, the risk of a heart attack is higher on Monday than on any other day of the week.
- Bone is five times stronger than steel.
- It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- Ingrown toenails are a hereditary trait.
- A normal person will die from complete lack of sleep faster than from starvation. Death will occur after about 10 days without sleep, while from starvation - after a few weeks.
- The average life expectancy is 2475576000 seconds, we speak an average of 123205750 words, have sex 4239 times, secrete 60 liters of tears
Incredible facts
No matter how much knowledge you have, there is always something interesting in the world that you could learn about today.
6. The biggest wave we rode was height with 10-story building.
7. Hearing - the fastest of feelings person.
8. Since the rotation of the Earth’s axis has slowed down, dayduring the time when dinosaurs lived,lasted approximately 23 hours.
9. On Earth more plastic flamingos than real ones.
10. To cook eggs on the sidewalk, its temperature should reach 70 degrees Celsius.
11. 54 million people alive today they will die in a year.
12. Charlie Chaplin once participated in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike competition and took 3rd place there.
13. Most entries off-screen laughter in comedy shows was recorded in the 1950s. So many of that audience are no longer alive.
14. Antarctica – the only continent where corn is not grown.
15. Lighters were invented before matches..
16. Napoleon was not short. His height is 170 cm, which was considered average height for the French in those days.
17. Best time to nap between 1 and 2:30 p.m., since at this time the body temperature drops.
18. Children do not feel salty taste until 4 months.
19. Male pandas perform handstand, when they urinate to mark a tree.
20. If only The earth would be the size of a grain of sand, The sun would be the size of an orange.
21. The Dead Sea is not completely dead. Microbes halophiles live in its salty water.
22. The first horses were the size of Siamese cats. These were the smallest horses that ever lived.
23. Only about 100 people in the world can speak Latin fluently.
There is hardly at least one person in the whole world who could boast that he knows everything in the world. The world around us is multifaceted and interesting, it contains many mysteries and secrets, as well as an inexhaustible amount of the unknown that a lifetime is not enough to study it completely. To make sure that our life is more interesting than it seems, we invite you to expand your knowledge and familiarize yourself with educational facts, many of which will be a discovery for you.
If you plug your nose, you won't be able to grunt or hum a tune.
In France, the law that sentenced people to death by guillotine had not yet been repealed when the movie "Star Wars" first came out in cinemas.
And this was already 1977
By the time mammoths became extinct on Earth, the pyramids in Egypt were already more than a thousand years old.
Cleopatra lived closer to the time of the invention of the iPhone than to the time of the construction of the pyramids.
By the way, about the pyramids. We usually imagine them standing in the middle of the desert
But in fact they are located right on the outskirts of the city of Giza
The area of Russia is no larger than the area of Pluto, as many believe
The territory of the Russian Federation (17.1 million km²), although it is the largest among all countries on Earth, is still inferior to the area of this dwarf planet (17.7 million km²)
By the way, about Pluto. Since its discovery in 1930, it has not even made half a revolution around the Sun.
A year on Pluto lasts almost 248 Earth years.
If you have forgotten how insignificantly small our planet is, then look at this picture.
In case you don't already know, this is what a baby's skull looks like with all the baby teeth intact.
A double Snickers is actually only one and a half Snickers.
Ear sticks should not be inserted into the ear. That is, into the ear canal. They need to clean the ear around the auditory opening
The Krusty Krab restaurant in the SpongeBob cartoon is not a treasure chest, but a crab trap
Have you seen how pineapples grow?
If you put your finger in your ear and move it, it sounds like Pac-Man.
After this post, you will be able to entertain a group of friends while showing off your erudition.
The blue whale's arteries are so large that a person could swim through them. The heart of a blue whale is the size of a car. The bubbles from a blue whale's intestinal gases can fit a horse inside.
Penguins have an organ above their eyes that turns salt water into drinkable water (the supraorbital gland). 
Hummingbirds' metabolism is so fast that they need to hibernate (a kind of torpor common to bats, some rats and bears) just to sleep at night. If hummingbirds slept without stupor, they would starve to death in their sleep. If the hummingbird does not wake up when it wakes up, it will go back to sleep and die because its body temperature does not rise to normal. 
Lion tamers use chairs because lions can only focus on one thing they want to attack. And when four chair legs are pointed at the lion, he becomes confused and retreats. 
The concentration of salts and sugars in a coconut is similar to that in the human body. Plus, the insides of the coconut are sterile, which means you can use coconuts for intravenous injections. During World War II, American hospitals in the Pacific practiced coconut drips. Due to the lack of sodium (to fully balance the brain functions), coconuts were not suitable for a long course. 
Bananas actually contain large seeds under the skin, just like bean pods. You can grow a tree from them. And the bananas we eat, Cavendish banana, are just sterile mutants that do not contain seeds, but are a sweet fruit. This means that if the natural method of reproduction through seeds is impossible, then new banana trees can be obtained by cloning: we split off shoots from the old mutant, plant them in the soil, and get a new mutant. Just like with weed: you need a mother plant. If any disease affects the mother plant, then the business can be curtailed.
An interesting fact on the topic: isopentyl (isoamyl) acetate is a colorless liquid with the smell of bananas and peaches. It is a pity that inhaling it causes a sore throat, cough, headache, weakness and drowsiness. 
The carrot was originally purple. The color of Dutch monarchs was orange. So the Dutch experimented with planting carrots until the carrots mutated into orange. Orange carrots have become a symbol of prestige. In the picture: the ancient Persians, the caliphs of the Arab Caliphate and the entire Mediterranean plant purple and yellow, and the Netherlands has red, white and orange. 
However, the royal color is more commonly called purple (Roman emperors wore purple, and Roman senators were allowed to wear a purple stripe on their toga). The only way to obtain purple dye is from shellfish mucus. Something like 10,000 clams need to be squeezed to get 1.5g of purple dye. The main flow of the dye came from the Phoenicians, who actually discovered it. 
Clams? Why not use carrots then?! If you are still interested in the question of dyeing, then using carrots (purple or orange) you can dye silk or wool, but it will not dye cotton or linen. But the berries of phytolacca (polyweed) are often used as ink. For example, the Declaration of Independence was written by them. But the color from the berries is not enough to get such a rich color like ancient clothes. In any case, the nobility had to wear colors that ordinary mortals could not obtain. 
Despite the fact that you cannot drown in the Dead Sea, it is the second place in Israel where people die in the water most often. You may ask what comes first. In the first place is any body of water if you are a Palestinian, and for the rest the Mediterranean Sea or the Red Sea. You can easily find problems everywhere. It’s trite that waves and surf are the most dangerous things for a swimmer. So, the Dead Sea. If you fall face first into the water, the density of the water will prevent you from turning over face up. 
Rain doesn't smell like anything. When it rains, humidity increases, which allows you to perceive odors more clearly. After rain, cement takes on a smell. 
From the moment it was discovered until its classification changed, Pluto did not have time to make even one revolution around the Sun. 
If the history of the Earth is compressed into one year, then humanity appeared on December 31st at 23:00. 
Let's put the events on the timeline: Gagarin's flight and the construction of the pyramids. The interval of Cleopatra's life will be closer to "Let's go!" than to the creation of the pyramids. 
It is difficult for a Mercurian to answer the question when is his birthday. If we wake up in a cozy house on Mercury, drinking Mercury coffee while dew crystals melt in the gentle Sun, we will have a day ahead of us, which by earthly standards will last 176 days. In 87.97 days on Earth, one year will pass on Mercury (one revolution around the Sun). On Mercury, a day lasts twice as long as one year. So when is your birthday? 
Bagpipes, haggis, kilts, whiskey and tartan came to Scotland from outside, although they are now a national flavor. 
The new children's book from National Geographic contains many interesting facts that many of you probably didn't know about. By the way, the book is called “5000 amazing facts (about everything) 2.” If you need to show off your intelligence in a company or start some kind of debate or conversation, these interesting facts can help you. Replenishing our stock of erudite.
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1. In 1889, Queen Margaret of Savoy of Italy ordered the first pizza delivery.
2. In Japan you can buy eel flavored ice cream.
3. In Portugal it is considered indecent to write in red ink.
4. Although rarely seen in the wild, the bobcat is the most common wild cat species in North America.
5. A cat's tail contains almost 10% of all the bones in its body.
6. A gecko's feet have millions of tiny fibers that stick to surfaces with the help of a special chemical bond, which allows these reptiles to climb walls and hang on just one finger.
7. The word “astronaut” comes from Greek words that mean “star” and “sailor.”
8. The calcium in our bones and the iron in our blood came from the ancient explosion of huge stars.
9. The Nile crocodile can hold its breath underwater for up to 2 hours while waiting for prey.
10. Jellyfish in English are called jellyfish - literally “jelly fish”, but in fact they are not fish, because they have no brain, no heart and no bones.
11. The Chinese giant salamander can grow up to 1.8 m in length, making it the largest salamander in the world.
12. According to studies, people prefer blue toothbrushes more than red ones.
13. People used to think that if you kissed a donkey, your toothache would go away.
14. Scientists say that the best time to take a nap is between 13:00 and 14:30 because that is when the drop in temperature in our body makes us sleepy.
15. Due to changes in the speed of the Earth's rotation over time, during the era of dinosaurs, a day consisted of only 23 hours.
16. Hummingbirds' wings can beat 200 times per second.
17. There are more than 1,200 water parks in North America.
18. A seahorse can move its eyes in the opposite direction - to find food in the water and notice predators in time.
19. To cook eggs on the sidewalk, the sidewalk needs to be heated to 70°C.
20. A group of jellyfish is not called a flock, a school, or a herd. It's called relish.
21. The mass of the Sun is 99.8% of the total mass of the Solar System, and its diameter is 109 times greater than the diameter of the Earth - the Sun can accommodate 1 million Earth planets.
22. There is no ice on only 1% of Antarctica.
23. The largest wave ever ridden on a surfboard was as tall as a 10-story building.
24. A team of beagle dogs, used at 21 airports in the United States, help customs officials find and prevent about 75,000 illegal items from entering the country a year.
25. Some apples can weigh almost as much as 2 liters of milk.
26. Corn is grown on all continents except Antarctica.
27. Unlike most fish, seahorses are covered with bony plates rather than scales.
28. Every day you lose from 50 to 100 hairs.
29. The second name of the armadillo - “armadillo” - means “armored baby” translated from Spanish.
30. The world's smallest fruit - the achene - is the size of a tiny ant.
31. New Jersey has the most shopping centers.
32. Komodo dragons can eat 2 kg of meat in less than a minute. Extra fat is stored in their tail.
33. Not all moons are dry and dusty like ours. For example, Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean beneath an icy crust.
34. Some Viking leaders were buried with their ships.
35. Clouds constantly cover about 60% of the Earth.
36. All monkeys laugh when you tickle them.
37. Spotted hyenas can digest skin and bones.
38. The length of the quill of African porcupines is 3 pencils.
