20 interesting facts about the body that will make you look at people in a new way

Our body is something that is always with us. Nevertheless, if you think about it, this is a unique world of mysteries and unusual properties that we do not even suspect. These twenty facts are a real ode to the human body and the perfection of what nature has conceived. After all, the way it is arranged will not cease to surprise us in a hundred, two hundred, and a thousand years.

1. The capacity of the human brain exceeds 4 terabytes.

2. The average human body contains enough sulfur to kill all the fleas on an average dog; carbon-to make 900 pencils; potassium - to shoot a toy gun; fat - to make 7 bars of soap; and enough water to fill a barrel of 50 liters.

3. A man named Charles Osborne has been hiccupping for 68 years.

4. In spring, the respiratory rate is on average 1/3 higher than in autumn.

5. The feeling of thirst appears when the loss of water is equal to 1% of the body weight. A loss of more than 5% can lead to fainting, and more than 10% can lead to death from desiccation.

6. All people on the planet can be comfortably placed in a cube with a side of 1000 meters.

7. In the world, only 7% are left-handed.

8. The average person swallows 8 small spiders in his entire life.

9. The total weight of bacteria living in the human body is 2 kilograms.

10. The absolute strength of the chewing muscles on one side is 195 kilograms.

11. A kiss of sufficient duration is much better than chewing gum, normalizes the acidity in the oral cavity.

12. During the lifetime of a person's skin is replaced about 1000 times.

13. In blondes, the beard grows faster than in brunettes.

14. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.

15. At the age of 60, most people lose half of their taste buds.

16. According to statistics, only one person in 2 billion crosses the threshold of 116 years.

17. The focusing muscles of the eye move 100,000 times a day. In order for the leg muscles to make the same number of contractions, you need to walk 80 kilometers a day.

18. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

19. A normal person will die from complete lack of sleep faster than from hunger. Death will occur after about 10 days without sleep, while from hunger — after a few weeks.

20. Average life expectancy— 2 475 576 000 for example, during our life we pronounce an average of 123,205,750 words, have sex 4,239 times.