What are some of the unimaginable curiosities about the human body?
In the morning, when you get up, you are about 1 cm taller than when you go to bed. This is because during the day the cartilage between the bones is crushed and compressed.
The only muscle that never gets tired is the heart.
If you live to be 70, your heart will have beaten approximately 2.5 billion times!
In a month, you pee enough to fill a bathtub.
Over the course of a lifetime, most people spend an average of an entire year sitting on the toilet.
Your eyes blink about 20 times a minute. That’s more than ten million times a year!
Babies are born with about 300 bones, but as they grow, some of these bones fuse together. By the time they reach adulthood, they have only 206 bones.
More than half of your bones are in your hands, wrists, feet, and ankles.
Teeth are considered part of the skeletal system, but are not counted as bones.
Even though it represents 2% of our body mass, the brain uses 20% of our oxygen and blood supply.
Your brain has about one hundred billion neurons