Amazing and Interesting Facts About Human Body

We have compiled a list of 24 for cool and fun facts about human body:

01. Finger sensitivity.
If your fingers were the size of Earth, you could feel the difference between a house and a car.

02. Blood vessels length.
If you could stretch out all of a human's blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. That's enough to go around the world twice.

03. Nerve impulses, travel to the brain at speeds of up to 250 miles per hour, faster than a Formula race car.

04. Can humans see ultraviolet light?
The human eye, can see ultraviolet light, The ability is just filtered out by the eye's lenses. Some people have undergone surgery to remove the lenses, and can detect this particular light.

05. Atoms in human body.
An adult, is made up of 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms.
For perspective, there are around 300,000,000,000 stars in our galaxy.

06. How strong can a human be?
Human muscles are actually incredibly more powerful, than they appear to be. Human strength is limited to protect
our muscles from harming themselves.
This limitation can be removed during an adrenaline rush,
during which some people have lifted cars off themselves.

07. Human heat output.
During 30 minutes period, the human body gives off enough heat, to boil a gallon of water.

08. How many calculations per second can the human brain do?
If the human brain were a computer, it could perform 38 thousand-trillion operations per second. Putting on perspective, the world's most powerful supercomputer, BlueGene, can manage only .002% of that.

09. How many cells are replaced in our body every minute?
Average human body, produces 25 million new cells each second. In comparison, every 13 seconds, you produce more cells, than there are people in the United States

10. During their lifetime, humans shed 40 pounds of skin. The outer skin is replaced almost completely every month.

11. Blood vessels length.
During 24 hours period, your blood travels around 12,000 miles. That's four times the distance across United States, from coast to coast.

12. Gold in the human body.
Inside the human body, are around 0.2 milligrams of gold, most of which is in our blood.

13. Newborns tears.
Newborns don’t produce tears. They make crying sounds, but the tears don’t start flowing until they are about 4-13 weeks old.

14. Average blinks per minute.
Scientists have shown, that the average person blinks 15 to 20 times per minute.
That's up to 1,200 times per hour, or around 29,000 times in a day.

15. How many smells can a human detect?
The Human Nose Can Detect a Trillion Smells.A fresh cup of coffee or a wood fire. These are only two of the roughly 1 trillion scents that the human nose and brain are capable of distinguishing from each other.

16. Babies have more bones.
A newborn baby has more bones then an adult. About 270 to 350 bones are in the body of the babies.
As the baby grows, some of the bones, such as those in the skull, fuse together.
This is why, after people grow into adults, they only have 206 bones in their bodies.

17. Human saliva facts?
The average human, produces over 25,000 quarts of saliva during his lifetime, which helps protect your mouth from germs, These 25,000 quarts of saliva are enough to fill two swimming pools.

18. Tongue print.
Humans possess a unique tongue print, just like we do with fingerprints. As well as being one of the strongest muscles in the human body, this is the other amazing quality the tongue

19. Electricity in the brain.
When a person is awake, the human brain produces enough electricity to power a small light bulb.

20. How many colors can the human eye see?
The human eye can see around 7,000,000 colors. Also Certain colors can be eye irritants, can cause headaches, and wreak havoc with human vision.

21. Human eye resolution.
If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels, but only about 7 megapixels matter.

22. Heartbeat mimics music.
Depending on the music style you are listening, also your heartbeat changes. So music impact people's moods, which in turn leads to change in hormone secretions, which then changes the heart rate.

23. Human bone strength
The Human bone, is as strong as granite. A block of bone, the size of a matchbox, could support nine tonnes of weight.

24. Human endurance.
Humans are the best long-distance runners on the planet.
Better than any four-legged animal.
In fact, thousands of years ago, we used to run after our
prey until they died of exhaustion.