Interesting facts about human body

in #life8 years ago

The human heart retrieved from the chest is in fact capable to beat in a short period of time, because it has its own electrical system and will continue to generate electricity from the air.

  • The human nose can recognize and remember 50,000 unique smells, but it is absolutely not comparable to a dog apabilities in this area.

  • You sneeze with a speed 160 kilometers per hour or more.
  • The length of your blood vessels is 96 thousand kilometers, and that is more distance than two and a half times round the equator.
  • Every day your heart creates enough energy to drive a truck for 32 kilometers. Throughout the life of the heart it produces so much energy that it would be enough to ensure that this truck cover the distance from the Earth to the Moon and back.

  • The average person in the period from birth until 70 years clears about 50 kilograms of skin, which is comparable with the weight of small statue of a person.
  • If you look at the sky on a clear night and see the Andromeda, it means that your eyes are so sensitive that they are able to distinguish faint spot of light that is in our nearest neighboring galaxy and spaced from us at a distance of 2.5 million light years.

  • A person may snore at the same time uttering a sound about 80 decibels, which is comparable to sleep next to a running jackhammer destroying cement. Noise over 85 decibels is considered to be harmful to the human ear.

  • A man in his lifetime produces enough saliva to fill approximately two swimming pools, which is about 24 thousand liters.
  • You consist of 7000000000000000000000000000 (this octillion 7) atoms. And the age of each of these 7 octillion atoms is billions of years old.
  • The neurons move with a speed 240 kilometers per hour.

  • Your heart rate and your facial expressions change depending on the music you’re listening to.

  • Your brain, when it does not sleep, can produce enough electricity to power a light bulb.

  • If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixel resolution. For comparison – the camera Mamiya DSLR proved to be the most powerful, and the resolution of the matrix is 80 megapixels. In addition, experts believe that the human eye can distinguish 10 million different colours.

  • During the life, a long-term memory of your brain can store up to 1 quadrillion (one million billion) of individual bits of information.

  • A normal pregnancy lasts nine months, but the longest of recorded pregnancies was 375 days (12.5 months).

  • To make one step need a work of 200 muscles.

  • Most of the astronauts in space are five centimeters higher.

  • By the time of your death you will spend a third part of your life while sleeping.

  • Man is able to live for two months without food.

  • You can survive without oxygen for 5-10 minutes, but after that, your brain cells start to die off.

  • Your brain consists 60% of fat.

  • The human brain will eat itself, and this will be the last attempt to avoid death from starvation (the same thing happens during an extreme diet or malnutrition).

  • If you try using the expression of a face to convey a certain emotion, you’ll really start to feel the emotion.

  • Your brain forgets the information in order to protect yourself from information overload and unpleasant emotional experience that allows you to think faster and to assimilate new information easier.

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