14 Surprising Facts About Human Body that you Should Know

You admire your appearance, clothes, and hair when you glance in the mirror. Do you ever consider the functioning of the body you see in front of you? Since they have always been a part of who you are, your eyes, hands, hair, tongue, legs, and even your eyebrows may appear extremely generic to you. 

 

However, there's a lot more than meets the eye. We cannot even begin to comprehend the vast number of components that make up the human body and how scientifically it operates.

Since Earth is the only planet where humans live, it is fascinating to examine how our bodies function and how each organ works together to carry out different tasks. You may be aware of the strongest muscle, the number of bones, etc., but you would be surprised to learn many additional facts. 

So let us begin reading some interesting facts about our body:

1. Have you ever noticed the flexing muscle on your biceps, it looks like something is moving under your skin? Well, that is the reason why it is called muscle as it is derived from the Latin word ‘musculus' which means little mouse and that is what Romans thought about the flexed skin.
2. A person spends around five years of his life eating.
3. Do you ever wonder about the importance of the little finger in your hand among the palm and other fingers? Well, your pinky finger holds the 50 percent strength of your hand.
4. Here is one more unbelievable fact, blood runs the total distance of 29,312 kilometers in your body.
5. You know your eyes can differentiate between as many as 10 million colors, but your brain remembers just a few of them. Also, your nose can identify 1 trillion smells.
6. Another interesting fact is that your nose and ears regularly grow from the time you were born till you die but the size of your eyes always remains the same.
7. Our skin sheds dead cells almost every minute, i.e., 30,000 to 40,000 cells per minute which are equal to one million skin cells in a day. So, every year a human body loses more than 8 pounds in a year.
8. You might be surprised to hear that you are 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening.
9. If you spread blood vessels of a child end-to-end, then it can cover around 60,000 miles which is almost 2.5 miles around the world. In case of an adult, it would be 100,000 miles.
10. In our whole body, the cornea is the only part with no blood supply and gets oxygen directly from the air. It is also the fastest healing tissue as the corneal abrasions can be healed within 24 to 36 hours.
11. It is commonly known that 75 percent of your body is water but do you know that 80 percent of your brain is water too.
12. Most Caucasian babies are born with blue or gray eyes due to no melanin. But when the melanin gets enough time to build up and due to exposure of Sun, eyes change to its real color.
13. A human skeleton takes ten years to renew itself. So, after every 10 years, you have a new skeleton.
14. And the most shocking one is, a human body can survive even after you remove the stomach, spleen, one kidney, 75 percent of liver, one lung, 80 percent of intestines, and every organ from pelvis and groin area.

These were the only few out of many interesting and fun facts of the human body. If you ever search or read articles and blogs about them on the Internet, you will be left wondering all the more, and it would make your study of science even more amazing.