Body Facts

Tags: Mosquito, Interesting, Weird, Animal, Insect, Blood, Human Body, Body, Average

Fact Page: It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
Date Added: 2012-04-12 01:56:33
Fact Category: Weird Fact

Tags: Warmth, Cold, Temperature, Body Temperature, Body, Human Body, Health, Hunger, Food, Interesting

Fact Page: If you are cold you are more likely to be hungry because you use energy to keep warm.
Date Added: 2012-03-07 00:30:46
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Human Body, Human, Body, Foot, Body Weight, Weight, Running, Walking

Fact Page: There are times when you're walking that the pressure on your feet exceeds your body weight, and when you're running, it can be three or four times your weight.
Date Added: 2012-03-03 08:32:33
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Elbow, Pain, Body, Human Body, Human, Interesting, Strange, Weird

Fact Page: For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt.
Date Added: 2012-01-25 10:14:58
Fact Category: Weird Fact

Tags: Organ, Health, Spleen, Pelvis, Groin, Stomach, Kidney, Lung, Intestines, Liver, Gross, Human, Body

Fact Page: It is possible for you to survive even after the removal of the spleen, the stomach, one kidney, one lung, 75% of the liver, 80% of the intestines, and almost every organ from the pelvic and groin area.
Date Added: 2011-10-08 11:28:23
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Human, Body, Hair, Average, Interesting

Fact Page: A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
Date Added: 2011-10-01 17:22:24
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Gin, Alcohol, Diuretic, Fluid, Menstruation, Bloating, Body, Health, Drink

Fact Page: Gin is a mild diuretic which helps the body get rid of excessive fluid. Thus, it can reduce problems such as menstrual bloating.
Date Added: 2011-09-29 10:39:54
Fact Category: Health Fact

University of Pittsburg and University of California studied about 16,000 women and reported the following in 2007: curvy hips indicate smart women who will deliver intelligent children! Women should have fat in their hips, rather than their waist, because hip fat is usually high on omega-3 fatty acids (fat that develop the brain), while waist fat is high on omega-6 fats that do not develop the brain.

Tags: Curves, Hips, Women, Woman, Intelligence, Pregnancy, Children, Smart, IQ, Girl, Body, Brain

Fact Page: Curvy hips indicate smart women who will deliver intelligent children.
Date Added: 2011-09-28 07:13:23
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Heart, Body, Blood, Human, Human Body, Lifetime, Health

Fact Page: You heart will pump about 400 liters or about 800 quarts in its lifetime.
Date Added: 2011-06-20 15:41:58
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Cough. Air, Windpipe, Breathing, Speed, Human, Body, Human Body

Fact Page: Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound - over a thousand feet per second!
Date Added: 2011-06-10 08:11:48
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Human, Brain, Weight, Body, Human Body

Fact Page: The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
Date Added: 2011-04-26 09:30:56
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Stress, Body, Human, Human Body, Blood, Headache

Fact Page: Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body.
Date Added: 2011-04-09 15:26:09
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Sperm, Sex, Human Body, Body

Fact Page: The average sperm cell swims at 8 inches per hour.
Date Added: 2011-04-02 10:17:53
Fact Category: Health Fact

Because your liver fulfils so many vital functions, you would die within 24 hours if it stopped working. A common sign of a damaged liver is jaundice, a yellowness of your eyes and skin. This happens when bilirubin, a yellow breakdown product of your red blood cells, builds up in your blood.

Tags: Liver, Human, Body, Human Body, Organ, Interesting, Death

Fact Page: If your liver stopped working, you'd die within 24 hours.
Date Added: 2011-02-25 15:08:30
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Egypt, Ancient Egypt, History, Hair, Body, Human, Eyebrow, Eyelash, Eye, Ritual

Fact Page: In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
Date Added: 2011-02-20 06:51:37
Fact Category: Historical Fact

Hair is strong. A single strand could hold 100g (3oz) in weight: the combined hair of a whole head could support 12 tonnes, or the weight of two elephants. Weight for weight, it is not as strong as steel: more like aluminium, or reinforced glass fibres or Kevlar, which is used to make bulletproof vests.

Tags: Hair, Human, Body, Human Body, Weight, Interesting

Fact Page: One human hair can support 3 ounces.
Date Added: 2011-02-04 15:03:32
Fact Category: Interesting Fact

Tags: Skin, Brain, Average, Weight, People, Human, Human Body, Body

Fact Page: The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
Date Added: 2011-02-01 16:54:46
Fact Category: Health Fact