Human Facts

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Fact Page: Enamel is hardest substance in the human body.
Date Added: 2012-04-01 03:38:12
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Height, Short, World Record, Human

Fact Page: The world's shortest man measures only 21.5 inches.
Date Added: 2012-03-20 02:02:24
Fact Category: People Fact

Tags: Human Body, Human, Body, Foot, Body Weight, Weight, Running, Walking

Fact Page: 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.
Date Added: 2012-03-03 08:32:33
Fact Category: Health Fact

Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream if forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone. The famous poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, woke one morning having had a fantastic dream (likely opium induced) – he put pen to paper and began to describe his “vision in a dream” in what has become one of English’s most famous poems: Kubla Khan. Part way through (54 lines in fact) he was interrupted by a “Person from Porlock“. Coleridge returned to his poem but could not remember the rest of his dream. The poem was never completed.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
[...]

Curiously, Robert Louis Stevenson came up with the story of Doctor Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde whilst he was dreaming. Wikipedia has more on that here. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was also the brainchild of a dream.

Tags: Dream, Sleep, Interesting, Fascinating, Human

Fact Page: You forget 90% of your dreams.
Date Added: 2012-02-29 14:32:29
Fact Category: People Fact

Tags: Nose, Thumb, Body, Human, Human Body, Interesting, Strange, Fascinating, Weird

Fact Page: Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
Date Added: 2012-02-16 07:31:34
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Yawn, Contagious, Relationship, Human, Human Body, Interesting, Strange

Fact Page: Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
Date Added: 2012-02-04 15:54:29
Fact Category: People Fact

Tags: DNA, Health, Human, Human Body, Body, Interesting, Strange, Weird, Science

Fact Page: If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
Date Added: 2012-01-15 05:11:07
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Bone, Weight, Steel, Strength, Statistic, Interesting, Cool, Human

Fact Page: By weight, Bone is five times stronger than steel.
Date Added: 2011-10-15 10:33:24
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Boiling, Body, Average, Heat, Interesting, Temperature, Human

Fact Page: In 30 minutes, the average body gives off enough heat (combined) to bring a half gallon of water to boil.
Date Added: 2011-10-01 17:34:09
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Shark, Human, Bone, Eye, Transplant, Cornea, Bone Marrow, Animal, Interesting, Science, Health

Fact Page: Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
Date Added: 2011-09-30 07:23:32
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Gorilla, Animal, Human, Cold, Common Cold, Illness, Ape

Fact Page: Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
Date Added: 2011-09-29 21:51:40
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Tiger, Human, Animal, Interesting, Sight, Eye, Night

Fact Page: Tigers can see 6 times better at night than humans.
Date Added: 2011-09-08 09:21:04
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Brain, Human, Aging, Age

Fact Page: After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
Date Added: 2011-08-17 08:32:33
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Man, Male, Human, Sex, Love, Beard, Hair

Fact Page: A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.
Date Added: 2011-06-27 00:06:17
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Heart, Body, Blood, Human, Human Body, Lifetime, Health

Fact Page: You heart will pump about 400 liters or about 800 quarts in its lifetime.
Date Added: 2011-06-20 15:41:58
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Average, Statistical, Woman, Girl, Female, Sex, Lifetime, Human

Fact Page: On average a woman has 4 sexual partners in her lifetime.
Date Added: 2011-06-18 15:00:32
Fact Category: People Fact

Each cell in the human body contains 46 chromosomes (or 46 DNA molecules). If you lined up those DNA molecules end to end, a single cell would contain six feet of DNA! If the human body is made of about 100 trillion cells, each of which contains six feet of DNA, our bodies contain more than a billion miles of DNA!

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Fact Page: The human body contains over a billion miles of DNA.
Date Added: 2011-06-07 19:44:40
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Sex, Kissing, Human, Interesting, Statistic, Average

Fact Page: On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
Date Added: 2011-04-27 09:32:20
Fact Category: People Fact

Tags: Pain, Sound, Hearing, Ear, Human

Fact Page: Pain occurs when sounds are above 130 db.
Date Added: 2011-04-26 09:37:18
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Alcohol, Mineral, Human, Life

Fact Page: All 13 minerals necessary for human life can be found in alcohol beverages.
Date Added: 2011-04-20 06:00:06
Fact Category: Food and Drink Fact

Tags: Stress, Body, Human, Human Body, Blood, Headache

Fact Page: Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body.
Date Added: 2011-04-09 15:26:09
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Lifetime, Saliva, Human

Fact Page: A person will create enough saliva to fill two average size swimming pools during his lifetime.
Date Added: 2011-04-02 10:15:50
Fact Category: People Fact

Cats use their sense of taste to determine which foods are good for them. Cats are also not very sensitive to the taste of salt. Some experts say that this is because they get all the salt they need from their meat-based diet. Compared to humans, the cat�s sense of taste is weak. We have 9,000 tastebuds, while they have only 473. The preferred temperature for feline food is 86 degrees Fahrenheit�the same temperature as the cat's tongue.

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Fact Page: Cats have a weak sense of taste. They have only 473 tastebuds, humans have 9,000.
Date Added: 2011-03-02 07:56:41
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Egypt, Ancient Egypt, History, Hair, Body, Human, Eyebrow, Eyelash, Eye, Ritual

Fact Page: In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
Date Added: 2011-02-20 06:51:37
Fact Category: Historical Fact

Hair is strong. A single strand could hold 100g (3oz) in weight: the combined hair of a whole head could support 12 tonnes, or the weight of two elephants. Weight for weight, it is not as strong as steel: more like aluminium, or reinforced glass fibres or Kevlar, which is used to make bulletproof vests.

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Fact Page: One human hair can support 3 ounces.
Date Added: 2011-02-04 15:03:32
Fact Category: Interesting Fact

Tags: Skin, Brain, Average, Weight, People, Human, Human Body, Body

Fact Page: The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
Date Added: 2011-02-01 16:54:46
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Fingernails, Growth, Winter, Weird, Interesting, Human

Fact Page: Your fingernails grow faster in winter.
Date Added: 2011-01-27 09:45:18
Fact Category: Interesting Fact

Every other animal that produces tears has a physiological reason for doing so.

Tags: Emotion, Tear, Crying, Human, Sad

Fact Page: Only humans shed emotional tears.
Date Added: 2011-01-06 13:42:59
Fact Category: Interesting Fact

Tags: Brain, Human, Human Brain, Neuron, Average

Fact Page: On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
Date Added: 2010-11-28 08:54:24
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Eye, Human, Human Eye

Fact Page: The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
Date Added: 2010-11-12 06:12:00
Fact Category: Interesting Fact

Tags: Human Body, Human, Red Blood Cells

Fact Page: It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
Date Added: 2010-05-10 08:50:59
Fact Category: Health Fact