Random Human Body Facts

    45 facts tagged with Human Body Facts

    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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    Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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    If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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    It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
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    Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body.
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    The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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    The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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    Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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