The human body is a beautiful. wacky, and mysterious machine. Here's the thing: We live with it, So sometimes it's easy to forget how amazing things like internal organs. eyes, or even the basic building blocks of life are right? Here is some facts about the human body that are sure to get your brain going.
1. Measure yourself in the morning, then again at night. You're going to be taller in the morning because of how the cartilage in your bones compresses during the day.
Thinks a lot, gravity!
2. Depending on your beats per minute. your heart beats about 100,000 times a day. That means it sends 2000 gallons of blood through the body.
3. The highest blood flow isn't in your heart, liver, or brain - it's in your kidneys. That's because kidneys are the body's natural filtration system.
4. You can produce enough saliva to fill two bathtubs a year.
5. Healthy lungs are pink lungs.
Healthy lungs look pink and rubbery on the outside. The more you smoke though, the more tarry and black they become. This can have a serious effect on quality of life, and can even cause bubbles (called blebs) rupturing in your lungs ( a condition called spontaneous pneumothorax)
6. Dreaming in Black and white. 12% of people dream in black and white. what's weirder is that human beings used to sleep and dream in black and white even more before color tv. the average person still dreams in color, but it's interesting to see how the human brain is susceptible to media.
7. Your blood vessels could circle the globe. though people have small blood vessels, the networking is amazingly long. If they were laid out they would measure more than 60000 miles. Please don't do that though, it's good to keep your vessels in your body.
8. the average human adult has 2000 to 4000 taste buds. They aren't only located on the tongue. These tiny sense organs that give us the ability to taste are also located in the back of your throat, your nose,
and your esophagus. That's right, your nose doesn't just smell is very important component of tasting.
9. Your body has more than 600 muscles. Your strongest muscle is located in your jaw know as the masseter muscle, located in the middle of your ear, is your weakest muscle.
10. In time your brain has a harder time with long- term memories.
In time, your brain will have a harder time with long-term memory because the brain is unable to filter and remove old memories - which prevent it from absorbing new ideas. that means the brain has to work harder to produce memories over the average lifetime.
