The human body1 is one of the fascinating creations of God. Facts about the human body are always complex to understand and know. It is incredibly complex that baffles the doctors and researchers even after so many years of research and many medical advancements. So, it’s really interesting to know that the body we carry for so long has got so many hidden and unexpected facts.
25 Useless Facts About the Human Body
Here are some facts about the body that may be useless to know.
1. If you don’t move for 15 minutes, you will fall asleep.
2. If you block your nose while eating mint, you can’t taste it
3. You weigh slightly less under a full moon.
4. The surface area of your lungs is roughly 750 Sq. Feet or a nice-sized apartment with a den and walk-in closet.
5. The hair of an average person can grow up to 590 miles if left uncut.
6. If an adult male’s skin is stretched out it can cover about 20 sq. feet.
7. Tiny little mites live on our eyelashes.
8. According to an estimate, there are 60,000 miles of blood vessels2 in our whole body.
9. When we sneeze all our body functions stop, even our heartbeat.
10. Our fingertips are capable of regrowth.
11. The fastest muscle in our body is the muscle that blinks our eyes. It allows us to blink five times a second.
12. The nail of your middle finger grows the fastest; it is based on the concept that the nail of the finger directly affects its growth.
13. Women’s heart beats faster than men as the average female height is less than the male so females have less mass to pump blood to.
14. Women blink twice as much as men.
15. Women lose about 70 hairs in a day, whereas, men lose about 40 hairs in a day.
16. Femur bone is four times stronger than concrete.
17. It takes 3 seconds for food to pass from mouth to stomach.
18. The length of a penis is thrice the length of the thumb.
19. When we stand, we use 300 muscles just to balance our bodies.
20. Ear wax plays an important part in protecting the inner part of the ear from bacteria, fungus, and dirt. It also lubricates the ear canal.
21. Our cornea is the only part of our body that receives no blood supply.
22. The tongue is the strongest muscle in the body.
23. After death, the brain has 7 minutes of activity left when the mind playback the person’s life in a dream sequence.
24. Under normal circumstances, the information in our brain travels at about 268 miles per hour and is more active at night than during the day hours.
25. More than 100,000 chemical reactions go on in our brain every second. It is also a radio transmitter sending out measurable electric wave signals.
FAQs
1. What Is the Most Fascinating Aspect of The Human Body?
The hands, wrists, feet, and ankles contain more than half of your bones. Your body generates 25 million new cells every second. That implies you’ll have grown more cells in 15 seconds than there are people in the United States. The femur, often known as the thigh bone, is the biggest bone in the human body.
2. What Are Some Strange Digestive System Facts?
Here are some interesting digestive system facts. Every day, the typical human generates 2 quarts of saliva. Your esophageal muscles move like a massive wave. The jejunum is the second section of your small intestine. Enzymes in the digestive tract are responsible for breaking down food into the many nutrients that your body needs.
3. What Are Some Interesting Facts Regarding the Male Reproductive System?
Healthy male testes may create 500 million sperm cells each day and discharge up to 75 million or more sperm cells per ejaculation. After being discharged from the ovary, an egg has a lifespan of 12-24 hours, whereas sperm has a lifespan of 36 hours.
4. What Are Some Interesting Female Reproductive System Facts?
A female may have around 35 children in her lifetime. Both the male and female reproductive systems may generate the tiniest (sperm) and biggest (ovum) cells in the human body. The sperm and ovum are around 0.03 to 0.05 mm long and 120mm in diameter, respectively.
5. What Are the 5 Main Parts of The Nervous System?
The peripheral nervous system3 (PNS) is made up of nerves that convey messages to and from the central nervous system 4(CNS), as well as the body’s organs, muscles, and senses. The PNS is divided into two sections: the somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system.
Somatic Nervous System (SNS) – The somatic nervous system5 is composed of motor neurons and sensory neurons that assist the body in performing voluntary tasks.
Nervous System Autonomic – The autonomic nervous system is made up of neurons that connect the central nervous system to the body’s internal organs. It is split into two parts: the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
The Sympathetic Nervous System – The sympathetic nervous system activates the fight or flight response in the organism. It gets the body’s energy ready for stressful or energy-demanding tasks.
The Parasympathetic Nervous System6 (PNS) – In contrast, the parasympathetic nervous system strives to save energy. It tells the body to save energy when sleeping and relaxing.
So next time when you think of a body do consider the wonderful and bizarre characteristics it possesses without even us being aware of it.
- Gray, Henry. Anatomy of the human body. Vol. 8. Lea & Febiger, 1878. ↩︎
- Mitchell, Richard N., and Frederick J. Schoen. “Blood vessels.” Pathologic Basis of Disease 8 (2010): 487-528. ↩︎
- Hubbard, John, ed. The peripheral nervous system. Springer Science & Business Media, 2012. ↩︎
- Redies, Christoph. “Cadherins in the central nervous system.” Progress in neurobiology 61.6 (2000): 611-648. ↩︎
- Zanchetti, Alberto. “Somatic functions of the nervous system.” Annual Review of Physiology 24.1 (1962): 287-324. ↩︎
- Olshansky, Brian, et al. “Parasympathetic nervous system and heart failure: pathophysiology and potential implications for therapy.” Circulation 118.8 (2008): 863-871. ↩︎
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