Human Facts

Each day, approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse take place around the world.

Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.

The world's heaviest primates are morbidly obese humans, who can weigh over 1,000 pounds. After that come gorillas, the largest non-human primates, with males weighing up to 440 pounds in the wild.

From a complete stop, a human is capable of outrunning a Formula One Racecar for about 30 feet!

Neanderthal brains were roughly 10% larger than modern human brains on average, with cranial capacities reaching up to 1,600 cubic centimeters compared to our average of 1,350cc.

Rats can tell the difference between two human languages.

In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans every year.

Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.

According to a 2010 study by bio-mechanical expert Dr. Peter Weyand, humans could theoretically run up to 40 mph if our limbs could handle the ground forces—nearly 50% faster than Usain Bolt's record top speed of 27.8 mph.

Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 6,000 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost.

If Earth's 4.5-billion-year history were compressed into one calendar year, modern humans (Homo sapiens) would appear at about 11:37 PM on December 31st—just 23 minutes before midnight.

The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.

There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.

Travis was a chimpanzee who socialized with humans since birth. He could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch TV using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner's horses, water plants, and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.