Howdy partners, i've managed to gather up a few interesting facts about you that i bet you didn't know.
HUMAN FACTS.
A person would die from quicker from total lack of sleep than from hunger. Death would occur after ten days without sleep whereas from hunger it would take several weeks
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A single human brain generates more electrical impulses in a day than all the telephones of the world combined.
Nerve impulses sent from the brain move at speed of 274kw/h
The human brain has a memory capacity which is the equivalent of more than four terabytes on a hard drive.
The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea of the eye. It receives oxygen directly from air.
Bones are five times stronger than steel
A human’s little finger contributes over 50% of the hand’s strength.
If a human being’s DNA were uncoiled, it would stretch 10 billion miles from Earth to Pluto and back.
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Within three days of dying, the enzymes that digested a person’s food will begin to digest that person’s body.
The same skin cells that make up a human vagina are the same type of cells that are in the human mouth.
A human skeleton renews itself every 10 years.
Taste buds are not visible to the naked eye; the little bumps that can be seen on the tongue are actually papillae, on top of which rest the taste buds.
A cough amounts to an explosive charge of air which moves at speeds up to 60 miles per hour
The muscles which help your eyes to focus complete around 100,000 movements a day. In order to make your leg muscles do the same amount of movements, you would need to walk 80 kilometres.
The retinas inside the eye cover about 650 square mm and contain 137 million light sensitive cells; 130 are for black and white vision and 7 million are for helping you see in colour
If you were locked in a completely sealed room, you will not die due to lack of air, but carbon dioxide poisoning.
A person uses 17 muscles when they smile and 43 when they frown.
The human heart pumps blood at such a pressure that it would be able to raise blood up to the fourth floor of a building.
The chemical compound in the body which causes feelings of ecstasy (phenyl ethyl-amine) is also contained in chocolate.
The body can detect taste in .0015 seconds which is faster than the blink of an eye.
The human eye can distinguish 10 million different colours.
There are about 40,000 bacteria in the human mouth.
Each of us has around 2000 taste buds.
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An adult person performs around 23,000 inhalations and exhalations a day.
Your right lung can take in more air then your left.
During a person’s lifetime, the small intestine is about 2.5 meters. After they die, the muscles in the walls of their intestines relax and it’s length increases to 6 meters.
At birth, there are 14 billion cells in the human brain. This number does not increase throughout a person’s life time. After 25 years, the number of cells falls by 100,000 everyday. About 70 cells die in the minute it takes you to read a page in a book. After 40 years, the decline of the brain accelerates sharply, and after 50 years neurons (nerve cells) shrink and the brain gets smaller.
The human heart is approximately equal in size to that of a person’s fist.
Leukocytes in the human body live for two to four days while erythrocytes live for three to four months.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
The surface area of the human lungs is approximately equal to the size of a tennis court.
100,000 chemical reactions occur in the human brain every second.
Nerve impulses in the human body travel at about 90m/s.
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A passionate kiss causes the same chemical reactions in the brain that skydiving and firing a gun do.
A kiss increases a person’s pulse to 100 beats per minute or more.
A person passes bacteria of 278 kinds to another person when they kiss but fortunately, 95% of them are not harmful.
If someone kisses a person for a certain amount of time, this is much more effective in terms of hygiene than using chewing gum, as it normalizes the level of acidity in your oral cavity.
The structure of the human body contain only four minerals; apatite, aragonite, calcite and crystobalite.
The total strength of masticatory muscles on one side of your jaw is equal to 195 kilograms.
A person who smokes a pack of cigarette a day is doing the equivalent of drinking half a cup of tar a year.
You can lose 150 calories per hour, if you hit your head against the wall.
The total weight of bacteria in the human body is 2kg.
99% of calcium contained in the human body is in one’s teeth.
Human lips are hundreds of times more sensitive than the tips of a person’s fingers.
The fragrance of apples and bananas can help someone lose weight.
Only 1% of the bacteria in the human body can result to illness.
At least 700 enzymes are active in the human body.
When you blush, your stomach also turns red.
We lose 80% of our body heat from the head.
By the end of a person’s life, they can recall on average, around 150 trillion pieces of information.
The total length of all the blood vessels in the human body is about 100,000 km.
50,000 cells in your body died and were replaced by new ones while you were reading this sentence.
The average human body contains enough sulphur to kill all the fleas on an average dog, enough carbon to make 900 pencils, enough potassium to fire a toy cannon, enough fat to make 7 bars of soap and enough water to fill a 50 litre barrel.
PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTS
If you announce your goals to others, the less likely you are to succeed. Studies confirm you lose motivation.
The very last person you think about before you go to sleep is either the reason for your happiness or pain.
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The type of music you listen to affects the way you perceive the world.
Biochemically speaking, being in a romantic love affair is the same as having an obsessive compulsive disorder.
It is possible to die from a broken heart. It is called stress cardiomyopathy.
The more you spend on others, the happier you feel.
90% of people text things they can’t say in person.
Your favorite song is your favorite because you associate an emotional event with it.
Smarter people underestimate themselves; ignorant people think they are brilliant.
Singing reduces feelings of anxiety and depression.
Feeling ignored causes the same chemical effect as that of an injury.
Our hearts have nothing to do with “being in love” it’s only a chemical reaction of the brain.
When you try to remember a past event, you’re actually remembering the last time you remembered it rather than the event itself.
70% of the time, your brain is only replaying memories and creating scenarios of perfect moments.
98% of the time when someone says they’ve to ask you a question, you recall all the bad things you did recently.
When someone cries tears of joy, the first teardrop would always come from the right eye, while tears of pain come from the left eye.
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When a person dies, they have 7 minutes of brain activity left in which they see a dream-like sequence of their memories.
70% of your dreams and contain secret messages. They carry more weight and meaning than our conscious thoughts.
People who understand sarcasm well are often good at reading people’s minds.
Staying quiet often means that you don’t think the other person is ready to hear your thoughts.
Being able to respond instantly with sarcasm to a silly question is a sign of a healthy brain.
Women with higher IQ’s have a harder time finding a mate.
Pretending not to care is often the habit of someone who cares the most.
The cells in your body react to everything your mind says. So negativity brings down your immune system and you feel sick.
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Acting as though you own an item makes you more probable to buying it.
Good liars are better at detecting lies of others.
Hope you’ve learned something new today. Have a great Friyay!.
