Random Human Body Facts

    45 facts tagged with Human Body Facts

    After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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    If your liver stopped working, you'd die within 24 hours.
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    When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles.
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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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    If every muscle in your body could pull in one direction, you could lift nearly 25 tons.
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    The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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    Chewing gum boosts your brain power.
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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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