Body & Health

Women have a better sense of smell than men.

Smelling bananas and green apples may help reduce appetite and food cravings, according to research on how scents affect hunger signals.

The average person spends about 1 to 1.5 years of their life sitting on a toilet.

You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening!

Female brains typically reach full maturity in the early-to-mid 20s, while male brains don't fully mature until the mid-to-late 20s, primarily due to differences in prefrontal cortex development.

Although they won't admit it, women fart as much as men.

Farts are flammable.

If you eat lots of carrots, you'll start to turn orange.

In 1977, a 13-year-old boy had a tooth growing out of his left foot.

Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.

Taking a single step involves coordinating around 200 muscle activations across approximately 20-30 major muscle groups in your legs, core, and hips.

The most children born to one mother is reportedly 69, attributed to Valentina Vassilyeva, an 18th-century Russian peasant. Over approximately 40 years (1725-1765), she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets across 27 pregnancies.

Your fingernails grow faster in summer.

The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.

It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.

A passionate kiss can burn 2-3 calories per minute and engages up to 34 facial muscles.

For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Artists have long used a simple rule: your head is approximately one-eighth of your total height. This classical proportion has been used since ancient Greece to draw the ideal human figure.

It is impossible to hum if your nose is plugged.