22 Amazing Facts About The Human Body

1.

The muscles in your eyes focus at least 100,000 times a day. To put this in perspective, thats like exercising your leg muscles for 50 miles.

2.

There is an ecosystem of bacteria in your belly button the size of a rainforest

3.

You produce enough spit in one lifetime to fill two full swimming pools

4.

Your nose has the ability to remember more than 50,000 different scents

5.

Red blood cells make the entire journey around the body in about 20 seconds

6.

If you were on a completely flat and unending surface, you could see a candle from roughly 30 miles away

7.

Over 90 of our cells originate from fungi and bacteria

8.

People have been known to lift cars and boulders during times of extreme stress while experiencing an adrenaline rush

9.

Each adult body has at least 7 octillion or 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000 atoms

10.

We can distinguish between up to 10 million different colors at any one time

11.

The human body is one of the best long distance runners on the planet. In the past, people used to run after their prey until it finally died from exhaustion.

12.

Our bodies actually glow in the dark. Our eyes are simply not designed to detect that weaker light

13.

As babies, we have 60 more bones than adults

14.

The brain releases the same neurotransmitters and hormones as amphetamines when in love

15.

Bananas share 50 of our DNA

16.

Our brains produce enough electricity to fully power a lightbulb

17.

10 of our waking life is spent with our eyes closed from blinking

18.

The masseter, or jaw muscle, is the strongest muscle in the human body

19.

The worlds most powerful supercomputer, BlueGene, can manage only .002 of all the functions a human brain could if it were a computer itself

20.

Every second, your body produces 2 million new cells

21.

Human brains have the capacity to read 1,000 words a minute

22.

It may be gross to think about, but we shed at least 40 pounds of skin cells in one lifetime