Biology Facts

Women have a better sense of smell than men.

Your fingernails grow faster in summer.

Your brain is 80% water.

On average, a person produces about 1 to 1.5 liters of fart gas per day, distributed over an average of about 14 daily farts.

If you keep a goldfish in the dark, it will eventually turn white

Cats have a weak sense of taste. They have only 473 tastebuds, humans have 9,000.

All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).

The Saguaro Cactus, found in South-western United States does NOT grow branches until it is 75 years old.

One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.

Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.

Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every few days to protect itself from being digested by its own acid.

If you're typical, you can guess someone's sex with 95% accuracy just by smelling their breath.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Ants have two stomachs - one holds food for themselves, and the other is a 'social stomach' used to share food with other ants through regurgitation.

Most birds tilt their heads back when drinking water to let gravity help the liquid flow down their throat, but they swallow food using muscular contractions called peristalsis—the same mechanism humans use.

The katydid bug hears through small oval openings in its front legs!

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

Your skin is actually an organ.

The male fetus is capable of attaining an erection during the last trimester.

On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur!