Do you think that you know your body perfectly? Do you have an idea about how it works, its processes and the changes it shows every second?
The human body is based on a seriously complex and mysterious mechanism, which can even deceive the most qualified specialists, doctors and scientists. The editorial team has collected for you 20 facts on the body, both surprising and interesting, that will impress you!
Here are the 20 facts about the human body that you ignore!
1. Smile stimulates 17 facial muscles while crying activates 43 muscles. Smile! (HowStuffWorks)
2. The number of bacteria in a person's mouth is equal to the number of people living on earth, or more. (Harvard.edu)
3. Gentle and fragile nails, without a moon, could indicate an overactive thyroid. (Dailymail)
4. The speed of an incoming brain pulse is about 400 km / h. (ScienceLine)
5. There are not only four different types of blood that we thought, but actually 29! The rarest of them belongs to the hh, a very rare blood group common in a small group of families in Japan. (Ncbi)
6. During a single day, our blood "travels" the distance of 19,312
kilometers. (HowStuffWorks)
7. The total length of all the nerves in the human body is 75
kilometers. (Washington.edu)
8. A human is doing about 20,000 breaths a day. (Epa.gov)
9. Almost all people in the world have a special type of mite on their eyelashes called demodex. (Microscopy-uk.org.uk)
10. A human eye can distinguish up to 10 million different colors. But the brain can not remember it. (Color-theory-phenomena
11. Our ears continue to grow throughout our lives with almost incredible
speed: a quarter of a millimeter a year! (Ncbi)
12. The heart beats 35 million times a year. (Rodgershealth)
13. Every day, the human body loses about a million skin cells, which equals 2 kilograms each year. (HowStuffWorks)
14. 1 square centimeter of your skin contains about a hundred pain
sensors. (Hometrainingtools)
15. Boys have fewer taste buds than girls. (ScienceDaily)
16. The person consumes an average of 35 tons of food during his
lifetime. (Teaching Ideas and Classroom Activities for Health Care)
17. A human spends about five years blinking. (Makewav)
18. 100,000 chemical reactions occur every second in our brain. (The Hidden Spirituality of Men)
19. The speed of your sneeze is 160 km / h. (ScienceLine)
20. The imprint of the tongue is unique, just like fingerprints! (Springer)