1. The human body contains around 60,000 miles of blood vessels.
2. The brain is 75% water and uses about 20% of the body's energy.
3. Your stomach gets a new lining every 3–4 days to prevent it from digesting itself.
4. Humans are the only animals with chins.
5. The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes in the middle ear.
6. Your heart beats around 100,000 times a day.
7. The skin is the largest organ of the body.
8. Your bones are constantly being replaced; the skeleton renews itself approximately every
10 years.
9. Hair grows faster in warm climates than in cold climates.
10. The human tongue has around 8,000 taste buds.
11. Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour.
12. Your lungs contain around 300 million alveoli, which is where oxygen exchange occurs.
13. Blood is slightly alkaline with a pH of about 7.4.
14. Your liver performs over 500 functions in your body.
15. Humans blink around 15–20 times per minute, which is about 28,800 times a day.
16. The human body has over 600 muscles.
17. Your brain can generate approximately 23 watts of power while awake.
18. Red blood cells live for about 120 days.
19. The cornea is the only part of the body with no blood supply; it gets oxygen directly
through the air.
20. Your intestines are about 25 feet long in adults.
, 21. Your body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.
22. The human eye can distinguish about 10 million different colors.
23. Your kidneys filter around 50 gallons of blood every day.
24. Humans are bioluminescent; we actually emit a tiny amount of light.
25. Your stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve metal.
26. Your bones are about 5 times stronger than steel of the same density.
27. The surface area of the lungs is roughly the size of a tennis court.
28. Your hair and nails continue to grow for a short time after death.
29. The human body has more bacteria than human cells, but most are harmless.
30. Your brain stops growing around age 25.
31. Your heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood up to 30 feet.
32. The human body contains around 0.2 milligrams of gold, mostly in the blood.
33. Your muscles are strongest in the morning.
34. Human bones are constantly making new bone cells to repair micro-damage.
35. Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid.
36. The liver can regenerate itself even if 75% of it is removed.
37. Your body has about 100,000 hairs on your scalp.
38. The human body can survive without food for weeks but only a few days without
water.
39. Your brain contains around 100 billion neurons.
40. The human body produces about 1 to 1.5 liters of saliva daily.