Random Human Facts

    96 facts tagged with Human Facts

    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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    Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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    Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
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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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    On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
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    The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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    After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
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