25 Weirdest Facts About Your Body You Probably Never Knew
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10/03/2016
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Really makes you wonder just who tests these facts.
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Because of cartilage compression in the spine, when you go to bed you are 1 cm shorter then when you wake. -
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Red blood cells do a circuit of your body every 60 seconds. -
3.
When you have to pee, your bladder can grow visibly. -
4.
Babies pretty much universally have blue eyes and humans eyes only change color due to UV rays. -
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On average, people in the Western Hemisphere will consume around 50 tonnes of food and 50,000 liters of liquid in a lifetime -
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Sometimes it can take up to 6 months to grow a fingernail or toenail back. -
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The muscles in your eyes contract around 100,000 times per day. -
8.
Your average person sheds approximately 40 pounds of skin in their lives. -
9.
20% of oxygen/calorie intake is needed just to run your brain. -
10.
Your kidney contains 1 million filters that clean 1.3 liters of blood every minute -
11.
A woman’s ovaries contain around 500,000 eggs, of those only 400 will have any opportunity to create life -
12.
Everybody has their own unique smell. Twins, however, do not. -
13.
The stomach creates cells faster than destroying them, that way it doesn’t destroy itself. -
14.
You produce around a pint of sweat per day through 500,000 sweat glands -
15.
When we gather information from our surroundings, 90% of it is through our eyes -
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It is almost impossible to tickle yourself. -
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Gross but true. Skin grafts for burn victims often is taken from babies foreskin -
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Your bones are actually 4 times stronger than concrete. -
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Straight from the “who the hell tested that?” files. The skin of an adult male will stretch to 20 feet -
20.
People produce enough saliva in their life to fill a swimming pool -
21.
Our Saliva has to dissolve something before we can taste it. -
22.
A man produces enough sperm in a day to replace the world’s population in 6 months. -
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Your body is capable of producing enough heat in 30 minutes to boil a gallon of water. -
24.
If you stretch the capillaries in your lungs from tip to tip they would reach from Los Angeles to Atlanta. -
25.
The amount you dream determines how intelligent you are. People who dream more have higher I.Q’s.
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