Facts about the Human Body!

֍ According to research, the risk of heart attack is highest on a Monday.

֍ Jaundice is the skin disorder caused by the accumulation of bile pigment in the
blood.
֍ Doctor Christian Barnard is the person who performed the first successful transplant
of the human organ heart.
֍ The largest muscle in the human body is the gluteus maximus.
֍ The chief muscle used in the breathing process is the diaphragm.
֍ “Pink eye”, or “sore eye” is the disease that can scientifically termed as conjunctivitis.
֍ Of the human senses, the first one to deteriorate as people grow older is the sense of
smell.
֍ The smallest bone in the human body can be compared with a grain of rice.
֍ Our tongue is composed of 2,000 – 8,000 taste buds.
֍ The hardest substance in our body is the tooth enamel.
֍ Fontanel is the term given for the soft spot on a baby’s head. Every baby typically
has 2 fontanelles in his/her head: anterior and posterior.
֍ In babies, the human sense least developed when they are newborns is the sense of
sight.
֍ Palmar grasp reflex is the term given for the reflex that causes a baby to
automatically grasp an object placed in his/her hand.
֍ Lanugo is the medical term for the soft, downy hair that covers a newborn’s body.
֍ Hypothalamus is the part of the human brain responsible for regulating sleep.
֍ A wisdom tooth can be medically termed as the third molar.
֍ In medical terminology, newborn babies are often referred to as neonates.
֍ Seborrheic dermatitis is the term for the excessive production of sebum by the skin
glands, leading to oily skin and acne.
֍ Hyoid bone is the only bone in the human body that is not connected to another
bone.
֍ Your eyes blink around 20 times a minute. That’s over ten million times a year!
֍ Earwax is actually a type of sweat.
֍ A person is about 1 centimeter taller in the morning when s/he first gets up than when
s/he goes to bed. This is because during the day the soft cartilage between the
bones gets squashed and compressed.
֍ If a person goes into space, s/he can get taller! This is because the cartilage disks in
his/her spine expand due to the lack of gravity.
֍ Trepanning is an ancient form of medicine which involves making a hole in the
human skull to relieve pressure.
֍ Pyrogen is the term given to a substance – usually produced by bacteria, that causes
fever.
֍ A person’s eyesight changes as s/he grows older. This is because the eye’s lens
continues to grow throughout one’s life. It becomes thicker and less transparent.
֍ It takes 17 muscles to smile, and 43 to frown.
֍ Aside from having unique fingerprints, humans also have unique tongue print!
֍ Dactyloscopy is the name for examining fingerprints in forensics science.
֍ In 1892, fingerprints were first used to solve a crime!
֍ The ama are female pearl divers in Japan, famous for their freediving skills. One of
the special techniques they use is when they come back up, they let out a long, slow
whistle that helps them regulate their breathing. It’s called the ocean whistle. They
can hold their breath for up to 2 minutes and dive up to 9 meters deep.
֍ It is possible to sweat too much. Overactive sweat glands (also known as
hyperhidrosis) can be caused by certain medications or medical conditions.
Hyperhidrosis can even lead to dehydration.
֍ The four taste zones on your tongue are bitter (back), sour (back sides), salty (front
sides), and sweet (front).
֍ The strongest muscle of the body is the masseter muscle, which is located in the jaw.
֍ Common in athletes, ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) surgery reconstructs or
replaces a ligament located in the knee of the human body.
֍ Michael Jordan, Gene Simmons, and Miley Cyrus all have very active hypoglossal
nerves. The hypoglossal nerve is responsible for the movement of the tongue.
֍ The islets of Langerhans are groups of cells that produce insulin and glucagon
located in the pancreas.
֍ Gallbladder is a small organ that stores bile. It is also sometimes referred to as
cholecyst-.
֍ The sciatic nerve is the longest and widest nerve in the human body, which starts at
the lower back and runs down both legs.
֍ “Earkeckers” is an outdated term for tonsils.
֍ In 2011, a new Guiness World Record was established for the most number of toes on
a newborn human. The Indian child has 20 toes.
֍ A region in the frontal lobe of the brain named for Pierre Paul Broca, a physician
studying aphasia in the 19th century, is linked with the important human capability,
the speech.
֍ The word “muscle” comes from Latin term meaning “little mouse”, which is what
Ancient Romans thought flexed bicep muscles resembled.
֍ Human bodies give off a tiny amount of light that’s too weak for the eye to see.
֍ Human babies don’t shed tears until they are at least one month old.
֍ Blepharospasm is a disorder with the physical symptom of uncontrollable winking.
֍ A weird fact about the human body is that it consists of so much fat that it can make
up to seven bars of soap.
֍ There are tumors known as teratomas, which can grow their own teeth and hair.
֍ Human heart has the ability to sync to the rhythm of the music s/he listens to.
֍ Human lungs are the only organs that float on water. This is because our lungs contain
300 million balloon-like structures known as alveoli.
֍ A bond exists between the digestive system and the brain, known as gut-brain axis.
So any stress or brain disorders can affect the way the body digests food.
֍ Some women are born with two uteruses, and they are known as uterus didelphys or
double uterus. However, this is not a very common condition where 1 in 2,000 women
suffers from it worldwide.
֍ The longest recorded pregnancy went on to 375 days when a woman named Beulah
Hunter gave birth in Los Angeles after 100 days of the average 280-day pregnancy.
֍ The shortest pregnancy recorded is the baby delivery in just 22 weeks. While there
had been several complications, the baby survived.
֍ In 2009, Nadya Suleman gave birth to 6 boys and 2 girls, a total of eight children, in
a California hospital.
֍ The earliest known cause of heart disease was detected in an Egyptian mummy,
which was 3,500 years old.
֍ A woman’s heart beats slightly faster when compared to a man’s.
֍ The beating sound of the heart occurs because of the closing and opening of the
heart’s valves.
֍ The thickest skin on your body is found in the feet, while the thinnest is in the eyelids.
֍ Humans are one of the top distance runners on the planet. We’re one of the few
animals with the ability to sweat, and as our sweat evaporates, the water takes lots
of extra heat with it. That makes us able to run without stopping for way longer than
almost any other animal.
֍ Your heart pumps billions of times in a single lifetime. Since it beats nearly 5000 times
in a single hour, that means it will beat over 2.5 billion times in a single lifetime.
֍ You alternate which nostril you breathe out of. Your brain switches back and forth
throughout the day when breathing, without you even knowing!
֍ Your cornea is unique in that it has no blood vessels. The only reason your cornea is
transparent is that it’s the only one of two tissues in your body – the other being
cartilage, that is entirely free of blood vessels.
֍ Human brain shrinks during pregnancy. A 2017 study published in the journal Nature
Neuroscience revealed pregnant women experience reductions in cortical thickness
and surface area in sections of the brain called grey matter.
֍ An average person breathes 20 000 times a day. The rate of breathing is faster in
children and women compared to men. The deeper we breathe, the faster
becomes the metabolism.
֍ Our appetite depends on our style of breathing. Slow breaths help in increasing our
lifespan. It is always advised to breathe through our nose to avoid infections, tonsilitis,
sore throats, and other disorders.
֍ The fingernails grow faster than toenails and the nail on the middle finger grows faster
than the other fingernails. The middle fingernail grows faster than the other fingernails.
֍ We cannot breathe and swallow at the same time. But newborn babies can breathe
and swallow both at the same time for up to 7-8 months of their lives.
֍ The fastest muscle in the body is your eye muscle. In addition, you blink more when
talking and less when you are reading; this is the reason why you get tired when
reading.
֍ Only 2% of humans have green eyes. The largest concentration of green-eyed
people is in Ireland, Scotland, and Northern Europe.
֍ The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb. Your brain
generates as much energy as a small light bulb when you’re sleeping.
֍ The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia
Britannica. The storage capacity of the brain in electronic terms is thought to be
between 3 or even 1000 terabytes.
֍ The brain is much more active at night than during the day.
֍ Scientists say the higher your IQ, the more you dream.
֍ The brain itself cannot feel pain. While the brain might be the pain center, the brain
itself doesn’t have pain receptors and cannot feel pain. The brain is surrounded by
tissues, nerves, and blood vessels that receive pain and can give you headache.
֍ Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body.
֍ The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades.
֍ You get a new stomach lining every three to four days. The mucus-like cells lining the
walls of the stomach would soon dissolve due to the strong digestive acids in your
stomach if they weren’t constantly replaced.
֍ Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s. This is because an average woman tends to
be smaller than man and have less mass to pump blood to.
֍ The heart’s aorta is nearly the diameter of a garden hose. The average adult heart is
about the size of 2 fists, making the size of the aorta quite impressive.
֍ Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
֍ You could remove a large part of your internal organs and survive. Humans can
survive even with the removal of the stomach, the spleen, 75% of the liver, 80% of the
intestines, 1 kidney, 1 lung, and virtually every organ from the pelvic and groin area.
֍ A full gallbladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.
֍ Earwax production is necessary for good ear health. It protects the delicate inner ear
from bacteria, fungus, dirt, and even insects. It also cleans and lubricates the ear
canal.
֍ The largest cell in the body is the female egg cell, and the smallest is the male sperm
cell.
֍ The three things pregnant women dream most of during their first trimester are frogs,
worms, and potted plants.
֍ Babies are always born with blue eyes. This is because of the pigment melanin; it still
needs time to be darkened by exposure to ultraviolet light, later revealing the baby’s
true eye color.
֍ After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
֍ If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
֍ Women are born better smellers than men and remain better smellers over life.
֍ Everyone has a unique smell, except for identical twins.
֍ Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress. Stress could also be
increasing your chances of having a variety of serious medical conditions like
depression, high blood pressure, and heart disease.
֍ A human head remains conscious for about 15-20 seconds after it has been
decapitated.
֍ Humans use 200 muscles to take one step.
֍ The tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself.
֍ Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells about every 27 days.
֍ The most common blood type in the world is Type O, while the rarest is the blood Type
A-H or Bombay blood named due to the location of its discovery.
֍ Human lips have a reddish color because of the great concentrations of capillaries
just below the skin.
֍ The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you’ll have a bad
dream.
֍ Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren’t.
֍ It is not possible to tickle yourself. Your brain predicts the tickle from the information it
already has.
 ֍ Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
do.
֍ The indentation in the middle of the area between the nose and the upper lip is
called the philtrum.
֍ It is possible to vomit poo. It is called fecal vomiting, and it’s very rare, but it can
happen. The condition occurs when the bowel is obstructed for some reason, and
the intestines push the waste back up and out of the mouth instead.
֍ A brain freeze is really a sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. This pain occurs when
cold hits the receptors in the outer covering of the brain, called the meninges.
֍ Fifty percent of your hand strength comes from your little finger.
֍ Healthy lungs look pink and rubbery on the outside. The more you smoke cigarettes,
the blacker the lungs become.
֍ The weakest muscle in your body is the stapedius muscle, located in the middle of
your ear.
֍ Research has shown that in the scales between the female egg and male sperm,
your genes tend to favor your father, especially over multiple generations. This is
known as ‘gene expression’.
֍ We erase and reform memories. Our brain rewrites the memory each time we think
of it, slowly altering or twisting it over time.

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