Random Human Body Facts

    45 facts tagged with Human Body Facts

    If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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    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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    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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    After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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    Women have about four times as many foot problems as men; lifelong patterns of wearing high heels often are the culprit.
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    The human brain doesn't stop developing until about 25 years old.
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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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