Senses Facts

Women have a better sense of smell than men.

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

Studies show that men tend to have slightly better visual acuity than women, while women generally have more sensitive hearing, particularly at higher frequencies.

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

On average women can hear better than men.

Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.

Girls have a better sense of taste than boys, requiring less intensity to detect sweet and sour flavors.

When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go.

You have no sense of smell when you're sleeping!

A marine catfish can taste with any part of its body.

Sharks can detect fish heartbeats using electroreceptors called ampullae of Lorenzini that sense electrical fields as small as five billionths of a volt.

Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!

Cats cannot taste sweet things.

There's a woman named Veronica Seider who had vision 20x better than average. She could identify people more than a mile (1.6km) away.

The chills you sometimes feel when listening to music is called "musical frisson."

Whales and dolphins can't taste anything other than salt.

According to scientists, the color of the cup that we're drinking from can alter our perception of the actual taste of the drink.

Your brain's visual cortex rewires itself if you go blind, repurposing that area to process sound and touch with superhuman precision.