Random Human Body Facts

    45 facts tagged with Human Body Facts

    Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound - over a thousand feet per second!
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    The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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    Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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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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    If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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    Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
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    Your heart will pump about 212 million liters in its lifetime.
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    It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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