Interesting Facts About the Human Body

The body that encapsulates us, is an interesting specimen that embodies functions that sum up as weird, shocking and something to really think about. Different body parts play a key role to play out a certain bodily function, thereby making us do what we do, react to things/elements and act in a certain manner. It holds a lot of complexities that we tend to ignore, and not really pay attention to. Here you'll discover a lot about the body that you may have already known about, or will find out for the first time. If you've always wondered about the little things your body does, then these interesting facts about the human body are going to really surprise you.

10 Interesting Facts About the Human Body

These interesting human body facts will educate you about how your body responds to outside influences, what goes on within your body, why certain spasms or reactions take place and more.

1. Average life of a taste bud is said to last up to 10 days.
2. A cough comes out from one's mouth at the speed of 60 miles/hour.
3. The human thigh bone is stronger than concrete.
4. Women blink twice as much as men do.
5. Cow milk takes one hour to break down in the human stomach.
6. Children grow at a higher rate during the springtime.
7. Blondes have more hair compared to those with dark hair.
8. When the human body dries up, it creates an illusion that makes one think that hair and nails still grow after death.
9. When the brain suffers from a traumatic injury like from an infection, accident or stroke, some people develop 'alien hand syndrome'. This syndrome causes one to feel no sensation in either hand, losing the ability to control its movements. It feels like the hand has a mind of its own and isn't a part of the body, and can randomly play out functions like tearing up one's clothes or grabbing at items.
10. A human can survive without food intake, but not without sleep.

Interesting Facts About the Human Body for Kids

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1. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
2. The skull is made up of 29 different kinds of bones.
3. The human heart and other body functions stop all at once, when one sneezes.
4. It takes 72 muscles to flex, for one to speak.
5. The body is made up of 80% water.
6. It isn't possible to sneeze with your eyes open.
7. An average human blinks about 6,205,000 times a year.
8. The stomach needs to produce a new mucus layer every 2 weeks, else it would digest itself.
9. Humans have unique tongue prints, just like fingerprints.
10. Only humans can secrete tears from emotion; when animals do, it is due to some physical reasons.
11. It takes the body about 12 hours to completely digest the food present in the digestive system.
12. Humans experience REM (Rapid Eye Movement), when witnessing vivid dreams.
13. Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your life.
14. Some of the body parts that we don't require are - the appendix, pinkie toe, wisdom teeth and tonsils.
15. It takes 43 muscles to frown, and 17 to smile.
16. Average head of hair, has about 100,000 strands.
17. If you work on a computer for hours, staring at a blank piece of white paper will appear pink.
18. Humans lose at least 40-100 strands of hair per day.
19. It isn't possible for one to tickle themselves.
20. All babies are born with blue eyes, until they acquire their true eye colors as they grow up.

What the body experiences, whether good/bad, we are able to identify and rectify/satisfy depending upon what signals are sent by the body to our brains. I hope these interesting facts about the human body will help you understand yours better, and give you more to understand when it comes to how your body operates.