Human 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: Napping, Sleep, Brain, Interesting, Health, Human Body

Fact Page: Quick naps not only improve your alertness, but they also help in decision making, creativity and sensory perception.
Date Added: 2012-04-01 19:10:03
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Brain, Human Brain, Human, Human Body, Body, Interesting, Scary

Fact Page: The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.
Date Added: 2012-03-20 02:08:19
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: High Heels, Women, Woman, Men, Men Vs Women, Male Vs Female, Lifestyle, Foot, Health, Human, Human Body, Body

Fact Page: Women have about four times as many foot problems as men; lifelong patterns of wearing high heels often are the culprit.
Date Added: 2012-03-03 08:36:00
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Nose, Thumb, Body, Human, Human Body, Interesting, Strange, Fascinating, Weird

Fact Page: Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
Date Added: 2012-02-16 07:31:34
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Yawn, Contagious, Relationship, Human, Human Body, Interesting, Strange

Fact Page: Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
Date Added: 2012-02-04 15:54:29
Fact Category: People Fact

Tags: DNA, Health, Human, Human Body, Body, Interesting, Strange, Weird, Science

Fact Page: If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
Date Added: 2012-01-15 05:11:07
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

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

We get nutrients and minerals from our food which allow us to grow new cells. Our old cells die and must be replaced.

Tags: Muscle, Human Body, Atoms, Scientific, Science, Intelligent

Fact Page: Every year your body replaces 98% of your atoms.
Date Added: 2011-01-19 01:09:59
Fact Category: Health Fact

Technically, your brain has the capacity to store everything you experience, see, read or hear. However, the real issue is recall — whether you can access that information.

Tags: Brain, Human, Human Brain, Human Body

Fact Page: The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
Date Added: 2011-01-06 13:35:50
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Human Body, Human, Red Blood Cells

Fact Page: It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
Date Added: 2010-05-10 08:50:59
Fact Category: Health Fact