Random Human Body Facts

    45 facts tagged with Human Body Facts

    It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
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    Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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    Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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    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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    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.
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    The human brain doesn't stop developing until about 25 years old.
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    If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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