22 Amazing Facts About The Human Body That Will Blow You Away

We all know that the human body can be pretty amazing… and weird. Here are 22 facts that will make you think twice about your body and what it is capable of.

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#1. The muscles in your eyes focus at least 100,000 times a day. To put this in perspective, that’s like exercising your leg muscles for 50 miles.

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#2. There is an ecosystem of bacteria in your belly button the size of a rainforest

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#3. You produce enough spit in one lifetime to fill two full swimming pools

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#4. Your nose has the ability to remember more than 50,000 different scents

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#5. Red blood cells make the entire journey around the body in about 20 seconds

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#6. If you were on a completely flat and unending surface, you could see a candle from roughly 30 miles away

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#7. Over 90% of our cells originate from fungi and bacteria

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#8. People have been known to lift cars and boulders during times of extreme stress while experiencing an adrenaline rush

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#9. Each adult body has at least 7 octillion or 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000 atoms

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#10. We can distinguish between up to 10 million different colors at any one time

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#11. The human body is one of the best long distance runners on the planet. In the past, people used to run after their prey until it finally died from exhaustion.

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#12. Our bodies actually glow in the dark. Our eyes are simply not designed to detect that weaker light

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#13. As babies, we have 60 more bones than adults

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#14. The brain releases the same neurotransmitters and hormones as amphetamines when in love

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#15. Bananas share 50% of our DNA

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#16. Our brains produce enough electricity to fully power a lightbulb

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#17. 10% of our waking life is spent with our eyes closed from blinking

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#18. The masseter, or jaw muscle, is the strongest muscle in the human body

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#19. The world’s most powerful supercomputer, BlueGene, can manage only .002% of all the functions a human brain could if it were a computer itself

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#20. Every second, your body produces 2 million new cells

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#21. Human brains have the capacity to read 1,000 words a minute

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#22. It may be gross to think about, but we shed at least 40 pounds of skin cells in one lifetime

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These amazing facts and more are just a tiny part of the wonder that is the human body. Make sure you take care your little slice of life’s most amazing creation.

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