Human Body 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.

The human brain contains roughly 86 billion neurons connected by approximately 100 trillion synaptic connections—far more connections than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

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

Astronauts get taller when they are in space.

A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

Babies who are actively crawling can cover around 200 meters (over 650 feet) in a day during their mobile periods.

In a lifetime, an average person walks the equivalent of 5 equators

Kissing an infection-free partner is good for your teeth!

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.

It is now possible to print human skin with an inkjet printer!

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

The human brain doesn't stop developing until about 25 years old.

An unprotected human can survive approximately 90 seconds of space vacuum exposure without permanent injury, as long as they exhale to prevent lung rupture.

The world's shortest man measures only 21.5 inches.

Human hair can stretch up to 30% of its length when dry and up to 50% when wet without breaking, then return to its original shape.

Your heart will pump about 212 million liters in its lifetime.

Every three seconds, a new baby is born.

It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

Your skin is actually an organ.