Human Body Facts

• The brain uses over a quarter of the oxygen used by human body.
• Your heart beats around 100,000 time a day, 36,500,000 time a year over a billion times if you live beyond 30.
• Red blood cell carry oxygen around the body. They are created inside the bone marrow of your bones.
• The colour of human's skin is determined by the level of pigment melanin that the body produces.Those with small amounts of melanin have light skin while those with large amount have dark skin.
• Adult lungs have a surface area of around 70 square meters!
• Your nose and ears continue growing throughout entire life.
• Infants blink only once or twice a minute while adults average around 10.
• As well as having unique fingerprints, humans also have unique tongue prints.
• The left side of your body is controlled by the right side of your brain while the right side of your body is controlled by the left side of your brain.
• Antibiotics are only effective against bacteria, they won't help in fighting off a virus.
• It takes the body around 12 hours to completely digest eaten food.
• Your sense of smell is around 10,000 times more sensitive than your sense of taste.