Random Human Facts

    96 facts tagged with Human 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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    Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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    All 13 minerals necessary for human life can be found in alcohol beverages.
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    If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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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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    The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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    In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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