Did you know that women and men lose the same amount of hair per day? To taste with our feet? The human body is more interesting and unique than we think.
We have collected some interesting facts about the human body:
1. Quantity drool, which is produced by our body, is surprising. In one day, the body creates approx half a liter of saliva or more. The quantity is depends on the food we eat during the day.
2. Man has around 160 billion blood vessels. If they all did placed in one long line, would be long 170,000 km and could be used to circle the equator four times.
3. Ours digestive tract is very long - the length of the large and small intestines together with the stomach measures up to 10 meters (7 meters of small intestine and 1.5 meter colon).
4. Besides saliva we have many types of bacteria in our mouths – more than 7.6 billion.
5. If we could from our eyes made a camera, would its resolution was 576 million pixels. Our brains have memory in size 2.5 million gigabytes.
6. If you are not sure, what is your foot number, you can a helping hand. The length of your arm from the wrist to the elbow matches perfectly with the size of the foot number.
7. Human nails grow quickly. Their growth rate is approx 3.47 mm per month, and the nail grows the fastest on middle finger. Toenails grow twice as slowly.
8. The body adults and children are different. The main difference is in the number of bones. On average, a child has 90-95 bones more than an adult (bones fuse during growth).
9. One does not taste only with the mouth, but also with feet. If you apply garlic or onion on your feet, you will have them an hour later also tasted in the mouth.
10. Person blinks every 4 seconds, which is 15 times per minute. During the day, our eyes are closed for about an hour and a half.
11. Every hour we lose from 30 to 40 thousand skin cells, so it is the largest some of the dust in our homes consists of skin from our bodies.
12. The usual the amount of iron in our bodies would be sufficient for production a small nail weighing 4 g.
13. Women lose from 50 to 100 hairs per day, while men lose 25 to 100.
14. Eyes of newborns they are gray and blue colors. Our bodies have special cells called melanocytes, which are responsible for excretion melanin in the necessary places (including iris). Since it is dark in the womb, the eyes of newborns have gray and blue eye colors, because they melanocytes start producing only in the presence of light. This is why the eye color of children often changes as they grow up.
15. The human body produces a lot of heat. We produce so much energy in one hour like a 100 watt light bulb.
