Random Human Body Facts

    45 facts tagged with Human Body Facts

    It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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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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    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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    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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    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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