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Amazing facts about human body

1. Each day, our heart produces enough energy to drive a truck for 20 miles

2. The longest record time anyone has ever gone without sleep is 11 days

3. Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress

4. The colder the room you sleep in, the more likely you are to have a bad
dream

5. We have no sense of smell when we are sleeping

6. The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades

7. Within 3 days after death, the enzymes that helped you digest, start to eat
you

8. Sleeping less than 7 hours a night lowers your life expectancy

9. Much like finger prints, we all have tongue prints too

10. If the human eye were a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels

11. Our mouth is the most advanced chemical laboratory that exists and can
distinguish more than a billion flavours

12. By the age of 60, the majority of people will have lost half their taste buds

13. The higher your IQ, the more you will dream

14. Our fingernails grow almost four times faster than our toenails

15. We have the same amount of hair on our bodies as a chimpanzee. Our
hairs are just much finer

16. In 30 minutes, your body gives off enough heat to boil 30 gallons of water

17. The average human sheds about four kilograms of skin a year

18. Most of the dust underneath your bed is your own dead skin

19. Your nose can remember about 50,000 different smells

20. The human brain can hold more information than the biggest
Encyclopaedia
21. When awake, the electricity in our brain can power a small light bulb

22. 80% of the brain is water

23. Your brain only stops developing after your late 40’s

24. The brain is a lot more active at night that during the day

25. Over the span of your life, you will produce enough saliva to fill two
swimming pools

26. Our feet can produce more than a pint of sweat a day

27. A mature human body is made up of approximately


7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms

28. Your body has enough iron in it to make a 3 inch metal nail

29. On average, each person will have about 15000 dreams a year

30. Our heart beats 36 million times a year and pumps 2.4 million litres of
blood through 90 thousand kilometres of veins and blood vessels

31. Every minute, 200 million cells are broken down and rebuilt in your body

32. We are approximately 1 cm taller when we wake in the morning than in the
evening

JADHAV NAMDEV

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