15 Weird Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About The Human Body
November 7, 2018
- At birth the human body has 300 bones, but at death we have 206.
- When you blush, the inside of your stomach does too.
- Astronauts can grow up to 2 inches taller when in space.
- Humans are actually bio luminescent, it’s just that the light that is produced can’t be seen by the human eye.
- Your brain can actually survive about 5-10 minutes WITHOUT oxygen.
- The brain begins to eat itself in extreme cases of starvation.
- Your heartbeat will actually sync with the rhythm of the music you’re listening to.
- Your small intestine is roughly about 23 feet long.
- There are more than 10,000 blood vessels in your body.
- You are actually taller in the morning then when you are at night.
- You can’t breathe and swallow at the same time. (go ahead and try it)
- If you were to smooth out all the wrinkles in your brain, it would be as flat and the same size as a regular pillow case.
- If you were to put metal in your stomach acid, it would begin to dissolve; if you were to touch it, it would burn right through your skin.
- On average, you carry up to 4 pounds of bacteria on your body.
- Humans can’t digest grass, in order to do that we’d have to have multiple stomachs.
Facts courtesy of: https://allthatsinteresting.com/human-body-facts
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