Continuing with my yesterday’s blog of some facts about the human body, here are some more facts :
26 Even if 75% of one’s liver is removed, it can regenerate completely- The liver slowly grows back over time, until it completely regenerates itself. Among all other organs in our body, the liver is the only one that has this capacity.
27 After the age of 40, you lose approx 10 mm in height every year—Well, that explains why older people seem shorter than they were in their youth. This comes as a result of the discs between our vertebrae starting to slowly flatten at a pace that is hardly noticeable.
28 A human heartbeat can synchronise with music- It depends on the beat and the tempo of the particular song, but your heartbeat is able to slow down or speed up according to music.
29 By the age of 60, you may lose about half of your taste- While human beings start their lives with about 10,000 taste buds, with age, things start slowly changing, and in this case for the worse. In fact, taste buds only actually last about 10 days before completely changing.
30 That enzymes that digest food are the same ones that digest your body once you die-This is strange but after death enzymes keep working and feeding on fluids produced during something called autolysis- a process that happens once a person dies.
31 Kissing may help with your cavities- The action of kissing produces a lot of saliva in the mouth which gets those fluids secreting quite a bit in there. This process really helps to wash away plaque which can help out if you have cavities in your teeth. Less plaque means fewer cavities.
32 Humans are basically made of stardust that dates back to billion of years ago- Humans have approx 97% of the same number of atoms as the galaxy we live in. Due to supernovas, stars actually explode and their dust forms into new plants, and eventually into people. 93% of the mass of one’s body is made of stardust, and several scientists have confirmed the same.
33 Humans can glow in the dark-The human body is bioluminescent, which means that in the dark we are able to give off some light.
34 Some 200 million litres of blood are pumped by our heart in a lifetime- On a daily basis, the heart contracts about 100,000 times and is always pumping away.
35 Most people in the 1940s dreamed in Black & White- That time most of the Americans reported, they barely saw any colour in their dreams. It is believed that the reason behind it is the regular exposure of B&W through TV and films.
36 Our mouth produces about one to two litres of spit daily- Each person’s salivary gland may be triggered simply by thinking about food, which increases the production of saliva instantly. Similarly, when you are eating a meal, the glands work even harder than their usual.
37 Human body triggers something called a ‘diving reflex’ when you are below water- The action causes specific systems in the body to shut down and to begin. Also, there are psychological changes that take place when we are submerged that have led researchers to believe that humans have an aquatic history behind them.
38 If you decided to untwist your DNA, it could actually be long enough to traverse the solar system more than once- DNA is a molecule that carries every single piece of information about how a living being functions. It is basically made up of long coils that are tied around each other, carrying the genetic instructions for the functioning, development, reproduction, and growth of every organism.
39 Tears are made of different compositions depending upon whether they are made of Happiness or sadness- One’s emotion causes their tears to form matters, with a total of three different types of tears possible out there.
40 One could make ten bars of soap with the amount of fat in a human body- The number of soap bars generally depends on the supply of fat that a person’s body reserves and obviously, on how fat the person may be.
41 Women’s brains shrink during pregnancy – Amongst the many changes that their body experiences during pregnancy, one of them is brain shrinks a little bit. It can take up to six months after childbirth for the brain to return to its original size, before pregnancy.
42 The eye’s cornea doesn’t have its own blood supply- The cornea is not connected to any blood vessels. It receives its nutrients from tears, nerve fibres, and a transparent inner eye fluid called aqueous humour.
43 The first thing that develops in a human embryo is the anus.
44 The human embryo develops fingerprints after 3 months.
45 A quarter of your body’s bones are located in your feet- Each person’s feet and ankles have a total of 26 bones, within those small parts of our bodies, there are some 33 joints, and more than 100 tendons, ligaments, and muscles. This is the main reason why feet are more injury-prone.
46 Astronauts could grow about two inches taller in space- Since they do not have gravity weighing them down on their bodies all the time while in space, their body can apparently stretch out more than they would be on earth.
47 Body’s small intestine is about 20 feet long, and the large intestine is about five feet long.
48 If you find yourself starving, your brain may start eating itself- Once the brain realises that the body is completely starving, it may begin to eat itself to survive. This could be caused not only by starvation but by a person engaging in extreme dieting too. The scientific term for this occurrence is called autophagy.
49 Your brain could survive for about 5 to 10 minutes without oxygen- Simply put you will pass out after a minute or two without oxygen, but your brain will continue to function for quite a bit after that. Even after the stoppage of the heart, the brain can last for six more minutes.
50 If you have two organs of the same, only one of them is required to live.
51 The left kidney can be found higher up in comparison to the right one.
52 One can not swallow and breathe at the same time- This is because the voice box is placed in a way that results in the body only being able to do one movement at a time.
53 If one laid out a brain completely flat, it could cover an entire pillowcase.
54 There is a possibility that your body has fought against cancer before- Cells are constantly dividing between them, the body is very capable of catching errors to unusual movements.
55 A human’s tongue print is as unique as one’s fingerprint- In order to get a tongue’s print, one would have to you 3 D imaging for it to be noticeable.
56 Babies blink much less than adults do- They blink about once or twice per minute as they barely close their eyes when they are awake.
57 A Human being sheds about 600,000 skin particles every hour.
58 The jaw is the strongest muscle in the human body- With one’s jaw, their molars could chomp down as much 80 Kgs force.
59 Every human body has around 1 to 2 Kg of bacteria.
60 The highest body temperature ever measured was 115 degrees Fahrenheit- The miracle was that the person survived, generally, the organ starts giving way when the temperature reaches 107 degrees f when the normal temperature is 98.6 degrees f.
So these were some facts about the human body, hope you will find this information very interesting,
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Anil Malik
Mumbai, India
29th September 2021