Facts about the human body that are sure to get your brain going

1. You’re going to be taller in the morning

Measure yourself in the morning, then again at night. You’re going to be taller in the
morning because of how the cartilage in your bones compresses during the day.

2. Your heart beats about 100,000 times a day

Depending on your beats per minute, your heart beats about 100,000 times a day.
That means it sends 2,000 gallons of blood through the body.

3. Your highest blood flow is in your kidneys

The highest blood flow isn’t in your heart, liver, or brain — it’s in your kidneys. That’s
because kidneys are the body’s natural filtration system.

4. You can produce enough saliva to fill two bathtubs a year

Yikes!

5. Healthy lungs are pink lungs

Healthy lungs look pink and rubbery on the outside. The more you smoke though,
the more tarry and black they become. This can have a serious effect on quality of
life, and can even cause bubbles (called blebs) rupturing in your lungs (a condition
called spontaneous pneumothorax).