Amazing Facts About Human Body

• 02.23.2015, 19:42
•  No-politics

Our body is incredible and very often we even cannot imagine what kind of processes are going on inside us.

Did you know, for example, that your brain uses up to 20% of all your body's oxygen and calories, or that every single person on Earth has a unique smell (except identical twins of course). These are only very little examples on how amazing human body can be. Here are ten more facts that may interest you:

1. You are taller in the morning, than in the evening, because the cartilage between your bones is compressed throughout the day.
2. Your skin is an organ. Yes! Just like your kidneys or heart, the outer couvering of your body is also an organ.
3. Your nerve impulses travel to and from your brain at the speed of up to 250 miles per hour (faster than Formula 1).
4. In 30 minutes your body is able to give off enough heat to bring a gallon of water into the state boiling.
5. Your brain stops growing from the age of eighteen.
6. During your lifetime you can produce as much saliva as can be needed to fill two swimming pools.
7. The average life of a human hair is 3-7 years.
8. You have the same amount of hair on your body as a chimpanzee.
9. Your body produces 25 milion new cells each second.
10. Along with the five traditional senses you have 15 other senses, pain, thirst etc.