The levels of two stress hormones, cortisol and epinephrine which suppress the body's immune system, will actually drop after a dose of laughter.
112
Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your food begin to eat you.
22
Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
24
The human brain doesn't stop developing until about 25 years old.
102
An average heart beats 100,000 times a day, pumping some 2,000 gallons of blood through its chambers. Over a 70-year life span, that adds up to more than 2.5 billion heartbeats.
73
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
266
There's 100 trillion good bacteria living in your body.
17
The brain receives 20% of the body’s oxygen and 25% of total body glucose utilization, despite it accounting for only 2% of a person’s weight (about 1.4 kilograms).
8