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Human Body Facts

General Knowledge : Human Body Facts
14 bones make up the human face.
200 muscles used to take one step.
A baby born with 300 bones in their body, but as an adult we have 206 bones.
Adult lungs have a surface area of around 70 square meters.
All babies are color blind when they are born, they only see black & white.
An average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
Blood is 6 times thicker than water.
Bones in an adult account for 14% of the body's total weight.
Each person has a unique tongue print just like the fingerprints.
Enamel is hardest substance in the human body.
Every drop of blood in human body is filtered by the body over 300 times a day.
Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body.
It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
Length of thumb is the same with nose.
Nose and Ears continue growing throughout entire life.
Our heart beats around 100000 times a day, 36500000 times a year and over a billion times if you live beyond 30.
Our kidneys filter about 1.3 liters of blood every minute & expel up to 1.4 liters of urine in a day.
Red blood cells carry oxygen around the body. They are created inside the bone marrow.
The acid in stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades.
The adult body is made up of: 100 trillion cells, 206 bones, 600 muscles, and 22 internal organs.
The biggest muscle in the body is gluteus maximus, in the buttock.
The brain uses over a quarter of the oxygen used by the human body.
The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood to 30 feet.
The largest organ in the body is the skin.
The liver is the largest gland and the largest internal organ in the human body.
The longest muscle in the body is Sartorius.
The lungs contain over 300,000 million capillaries. If they were laid end to end, they would stretch 2400km.
The normal pulse is 70 heartbeats per minute.
The only part of the body without blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
The ovum is the largest cell in the human body.
The smallest is the male sperm cell; it is one-tenth of the diameter of a human hair.
The smallest muscle in the body is Stapedius, deep in the ear. It is thinner than a thread and 0.05 inches (0.127 centimeters) in length.
The stapes is the smallest bone in the body. It's located in the inner ear.
The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone) and it's hollow. It is also the longest and largest bone in Human body.
The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.
The tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself

 

   
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