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.
    62
    It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
    217
    Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
    124
    The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
    99
    Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound - over a thousand feet per second!
    197
    After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
    55
    Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
    266