Random Human Body Facts

    45 facts tagged with Human Body Facts

    Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
    193
    Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
    -137
    After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
    55
    There are times when you're walking that the pressure on your feet exceeds your body weight, and when you're running, it can be three or four times your weight.
    62
    The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
    120
    If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
    256