UNBELIVEABLE FACTS ABOUT HUMAN BODY
1. Most babies are born with blue eyes. Exposure to ultraviolet light (the sun) and melanin are what eventually bring out their true color
2. Women blink twice as much as men
3. Men get hiccups twice as much as women
4. Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born
5. The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in their life
6. Babies can only see black and white when they are born
7.Your stomach acid is even strong enough to dissolve razor blades
8. Your brain uses up about 20% of all your body's oxygen and calories
9. Apart from identical twins every single person on Earth has a unique smell
10. A higher IQ is correlated with more dreams
11. You are about 1 cm shorter at night because the cartilage between your bones is compressed throughout the day
12. Your feet have half a million sweat glands that produce over a pint of fluid everyday
13. There are over 300 million capillaries in your lungs. If you stretched them out end to end they would reach across the United States
14. If you laid all of your blood vessels end to end they would stretch 60,000 miles, or around the world nearly two and a half times
15.During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
16. After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp
17.By age sixty you will have lost half your taste buds
18. The only reason the acid in your stomach doesn't eat right through your body is because the stomach cells are renewed faster than they are destroyed
19. You knew that 75% of your body is water, but did you know that 80% of your brain is water?
20. The average lifespan of a human hair is 3-7 years
21. Aside from being flammable, human hair is exceedingly difficult to destroy even with strong acids
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