What are some things most people don't know about the human body?

 

1.Humans are able to smell rain better than thanks sharks can smell blood.

2.Can’t remember your dream from last night? That’s perfectly normal since most people will forget 90% of their dreams.

3.As well as having faster heartbeats, women blink twice as much as men as well.

4.Around 70% of people tilt their heads to the right rather than the left when kissing somebody else.

5.If you’re a female and you feel like your heart beats quicker than your male counterparts, you’re not wrong. Women’s hearts are proven to beat faster than men’s.

6.The chances of living to be 100 years old are very slim for most people, and only one out of every two billion people will live to be 116 years old.

7.It’s much less effort to be happy – you’ll use 17 muscles to smile vs. 43 to frown and be miserable.

8.If you’re a man, the smallest cells in your body are sperm cells.

9.Every 3-4 seconds, around 50,000 cells in your body will die and be replaced by new ones.

10.During the average lifetime, your heart will pump a grand total of 182 million liters of blood.

11.The amount of bacteria in your entire body is ten times more than the amount of human cells.

12.In your mouth alone, there are more bacteria than there are people in the entire world.

13.The average person will have sex 4,239 times during their life.

14.When you sneeze, it could potentially travel at 100 miles per hour (or even faster!).

15.Approximately 1 in every 2,000 babies already has a tooth when they are first born.

16.When you die, your hair and nails will stop growing too.

17.Walking uses a total of 200 muscles with every step you take.

18.Babies blink once or twice per minute, compared to adults, who blink around 10-12 times per minute.

19.On average, the body takes around 12 hours to totally digest food that you’ve just eaten.

20.Your sense of smell is around 100 times stronger than your sense of taste.

21.The surface area of an adult’s set of lungs is approximately 70 square meters.

22.However, the human sense of smell is much weaker than the sense of smell that animals have.

23.The largest blood vessel is the aorta. This is just over an inch in diameter.