Interesting and Fun Facts

August 27, 2014 No Comment 936 Views

Hundreds of interesting facts about your body that you never knew. Updated weekly with new facts about everything physical!

Physical Health Facts

Because of today’s alarming obesity rates, this generation of children will be the first to live shorter lives than their parents. Scary!
1/3 of all cancers are preventable.
Smokers can lose 1/3 of their everyday memory.
33% of those who drink four or more caffeinated beverages, such as soda or coffee, daily are put at a higher risk for sleep apnea
Stress causes or complicates 90% of all diseases.
There is an iPhone app that can actually fix back pain (learn more)
Just adding movement into your daily routine can increase your level of fitness. Being sedentary is dangerous!
On average, right-handed people live 9 years longer than left-handed people.
The adult human heart weighs about 10 oz.
Out of the 206 bones in the human adult’s body, 106 are in the hands and feet.
The amount of teenage cosmetic surgeries has nearly doubled in the USA between the years 1996 and 1998.
During a sneeze, all of your bodily functions momentarily stop, even your heart.
Over 40 million Americans have “chronic halitosis,” which is a condition causing bad breath that never goes away.

There are 5 million scent receptors located within a human beings nose.
Very high amounts of stress can actually stunt a person’s growth.
Reading in dim light will not damage your eyes.
Eating a meal with strong aromas will cause you to get fuller faster.
The body’s largest tissue is skeletal muscle, which accounts for approximately 45% of body weight in men and 36% in women.
Every single muscle fiber is thinner than a human hair strand, and can hold up to 1,000 times its own weight.
There are at least six universal facial expressions. They are: happiness, sadness, disgust, fear, anger and surprise.
The brain operates on about the same amount of power needed to light a 10-watt light bulb
Every 36 hours the lining of a humans stomach is replaced.
The approximate length of a human esophagus is 25 centimeters.
A person that blushes easily is known as a erythrophobe.
The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day.
Electric eels were used in the first forms of electric shock therapy.
The human liver performs over 500 functions.
Every year, the human heart will beat approximately 35 million times.
The human body can produce anywhere from 1 to 3 pints of saliva every day.
80% of the brain is water.

More Fun Facts About the Body

The human body has nearly 37,000 miles of capillaries.
The name for food digested in your stomach is “chyme.”
If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end it would total nearly 60,000 miles.
The pink color underneath your fingernails is actually the blood of your capillaries
If you didn’t have valves in your body, when you stand up all the blood in your body would literally fall downward, filling your feet/legs up.

Enamel, found on our teeth, is the hardest substance in the human body.
The average person sheds 22 kilograms of skin in their lifetime.
Your stomach would digest itself if the lining of mucus were to disappear from your stomach.
Humans have 46 chromosomes.
80% of people infected with the Ebola virus will die from it.
Every day, your heart will beat around 100,000 times.
You’re heart is roughly the size of your fist and weighs nearly as much as a softball
The average red blood cell has a lifespan of 120 days.
Although it might only take you a couple minutes to finish a meal, it takes your body about 12 hours to completely digest it.
The width of your armspan stretched out is the same length of your entire body.
Your nose can remember 50,000 different types of scents.
The year of the first open heart surgery was 1893.
The acid in your stomach is so strong that it can dissolve razor blades.
There are actually the same amount of hairs on your body per square inch as a chimpanzee. However, because they are so fine and light, they are barely noticeable.
In the average person’s lifetime, they will produces nearly 25,000 quarts of saliva, which is enough to fill two swimming pools.
You spent about a half hour as a single cell the moment you were conceived.
The human head is actually 1/4 of our total body length at birth, but by the time we reach adulthood it is only 1/8 our total length.
Males who exercise regularly are only 1/3 as likely to experience erectile dysfunction as those who exercise very little or not at all.
By the age of 60, 60% of men and 40% of women will develop a snoring problem.
Women, on average, live 7 years longer than men.
Women actually have more sweat glands on their body, but men’s sweat glands are more active.
It is estimated that 25% of American adults are sedentary.

Other Interesting Facts

Someone dies of tobacco use approximately every 6 seconds.
The treatment of the seven most common chronic diseases and illnesses costs the United State’s economy more than one trillion dollars every year.
There is a certain toad that can get you high just by licking it. The Cane Toad produces a toxin called “bufotenine”, which acts as a hallucinogen.
If you were to bang your head against a wall for one hour you would burn 150 calories.
Approximately 100 million people in the U.S. have some sort of chronic disease.
The world record for longest hiccups was “accomplished” by an American pig farmer who had a case of the hiccups from 1922 to 1987.
The highest recorded speed of a sneeze is 165 km/hr.
One who has the Gastric Flu may experience actual projectile vomiting.
Drilling holes in the skull was common practice in the early days of brain surgery.
The first hair dryer was actually a vacuum cleaner that was used for drying one’s hair.
1 out of every 5,000 babies are born without an anus.
A sneeze typically can travel out of your mouth at speeds over 100 miles per hour.
Walking at a fast pace for three or more hours a week can reduce your risk of heart disease by 65%, studies suggest.
Clinophobia is the fear of beds.
At just 12 weeks old the human fetus can squint.
There are more germs transferred from shaking hands than kissing.
Sleep is more important than eating. A person will actually die from lack of sleep before they will die from starvation.
1 out of every 1000 babies are born with a tooth.
Viruses are about 100 times smaller in size than bacteria.
The is a name for that tingling sensation you feel after being exposed to a certain sounds. It is called Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response.
Ever get dizzy when standing up too fast? That is called “postural hypotension.”
“Echolalia” is the name for the uncontrollable urge to imitate exactly what someone else just said in the same tone of voice.
The belief that what we wear will affect the way people think of us is a phenomenon known as “enclothed cognition.”

Playing board games and reading is good for you. They help preserve your memory and improve brain functions.
It is a fact that watching others dance can cause our muscles to respond in a way as if we were dancing too.
Playing with puppies and kittens has been scientifically proven to reduce stress and improve test scores.
Yawns are contagious in not only humans, but certain animals as well.
The longest time period recorded without blinking one time is 30 hours and 12 minutes.
37 million bacteria are added to the room every hour a new person comes in.
There is a phenomenon called “Dunning-Kruger Effect”. This is that the less people know, the more they think they know.
A hot, steamy shower can unblock a stuffy nose and help relieve symptoms of many illnesses.
People that have any form of gum disease are put at twice the risk to have a stroke or heart attack.
Due to the space and placement of the heart, the right human lunch is actually bigger than the left one.
For men, a longer ring finger means a less likely chance of suffering from a heart attack or stroke.