Random Human Body Facts

    45 facts tagged with Human Body Facts

    Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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    The average sperm cell swims at 8 inches per hour.
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    Your heart will pump about 212 million liters in its lifetime.
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    Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
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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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    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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    Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
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