Random Human Body Facts

    45 facts tagged with Human Body Facts

    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.
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    Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body.
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    After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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    The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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    It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
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    Your heart will pump about 212 million liters in its lifetime.
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    Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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    The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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