Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
118
Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
193
An average heart beats 100,000 times a day, pumping some 2,000 gallons of blood through its chambers. Over a 70-year life span, that adds up to more than 2.5 billion heartbeats.
73
The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.
682
Women have about four times as many foot problems as men; lifelong patterns of wearing high heels often are the culprit.
111
Cracking your knuckles does not actually hurt your bones or cause arthritis. The sound you hear is just gas bubbles bursting.
18
Chewing gum boosts your brain power.
285
Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
-137