Written by: Teresa Grant, PT
Here are some fun facts regarding the human body.
- Your body has enough iron in it to make a metal nail 3 inches long.
- You shed 600,000 particles of skin per hour.
- There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in an adult human body.
- The strongest muscle in the human body is the Masseter (jaw muscle).
- Your ears and nose never stop growing.
- When awake, the human brain produces enough electricity to power a small light bulb.
- Human bones are ounce for ounce stronger than steel.
- The human eye can distinguish approximately 10 million different colors.
- Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to.
- Your taste buds are replaced every 10 days.
- Without your pinky finger, you would lose about 50% of your hand strength.
- Your brain uses 20% of the total oxygen and blood in your body.
- Your bones are composed of 31% water.
- Every day your heart creates enough energy to drive a truck for 20 miles.
- Sleeping less than 7 hours each night reduces your life expectancy.
- Your brain keeps developing until your late 40’s.
- When you take one step, you are using up to 200 muscles.
- The human heart is not on the left-hand side of the body, it is in the middle.
- One out of every 200 people has an extra rib.
- The human neck and the giraffe neck have the same number of vertebrae - 7.
