16 amazing facts about the human body are published

When people are well versed in something and have good knowledge in some area, they apply the expression "I know how my five fingers". By the way, about the fingers and other parts of the body. What do we know about our body? Can we apply this expression to our knowledge of our own organism? We collected 16 facts that might surprise you.

Imprint of the language

If you want to remain unrecognized, then it is better not to stick out the tongue, because each language's language imprint is individual, as well as fingerprints.

Moult not only animals

Your pet is not the only one who leaves a trail behind. Animals moult, leaving hair, and a person is freed from particles of skin. Every hour, we discard about 600,000 skin particles. For a year this number is about 700 grams, and by 70 years a person loses about 47 kilograms of skin.

Bone

The child has more bones than an adult. We start life with 350 bones, but with age, in the process of changes in the body, some bones coalesce and their number is 206.

Stomach

Did you know that the human stomach is updated every 3-4 days? Gastric juice, most of which is acid, digests not only food, but also the walls of the stomach.

Memory for smells

The human nose is not as sensitive as a dog, but it boasts that it has the ability to tinge up to 50,000 different smells.

Intestines

The human small intestine is about four times longer than the growth of the average person. Its length is from 8 to 10.5 meters.

Bacteria

Their huge set on our body. Only one square centimeter of the human body perfectly exists 32 million bacteria. What pleases most - most of them are harmless and do not pose a danger to humans.

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Body odor

Sources of unpleasant odor on our body is the sweat of the armpits and legs. A pair of human legs contains approximately 500,000 sweat glands and can produce half a liter of sweat per day.

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Sneezing

The air that flies when we sneeze is able to "move" at speeds up to 180 km / h, so cover your nose and mouth when sneezing, especially if you are sick.

Blood

Our blood system and heart are real workers. Just imagine, blood passes through 108,000 blood vessels, and the heart pumps about 2,000 liters of blood through these vessels every day.

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Saliva

Of course, this is not the most pleasant thing you can imagine, but how do you like to swim in your own saliva? It would be quite realistic if we kept it. For life, on average. A person produces about 23,600 liters of saliva, which is enough to fill two swimming pools.

Snore

After crossing the 60-year mark, 40% of women and 60% of men begin to snore. The loudness level of snoring is 60 decibels. For comparison, the volume of ordinary speech is 80 decibels. And the volume level above 85 decibels is estimated as dangerous to the human ear.

Hair

Hair color helps to determine how dense hair is. By the way, more blond hair. On the human head, on average, there are approximately 100,000,000 hair follicles, each of them capable of producing 20 hairs during a person's life. The minimum density of red-haired people is 86,000 follicles.

Nails

The fastest growing are the nails on the hands. This is natural, because they are involved more than the toenails. Fastest growing nails on long fingers and on the hand that you write.

Head

Newborn children do not hold the head well. This is because the human head at birth is one-fourth of the total length of the trunk, and in adulthood - one-eighth.

Sleep

The expression "I'm dying, how I want to sleep" is quite literally, because a person can do without sleep only 11 days. After 11 days without sleep, there is a possibility that a person will fall asleep forever.