By: Mark Pygas Via news.distractify.com
The human body is an incredible thing.
Some of these facts may be hard to believe, but they are happening, inside of you, right now.
Human fingers are so sensitive, that if your fingers were the size of Earth, you could feel the difference between a house and a car.sciencedaily.comWhen a pregnant woman suffers organ damage (such as a heart attack), the fetus sends stem cells to the damaged organ to help repair it. And women who have previously been pregnant show neurological protection against certain diseases.discovery.comWith the 60,000 miles of blood vessels inside the average human body, you could circumnavigate Earth two and a half times.articles.mercola.comThe human eye is so sensitive that if the Earth were flat, you could spot a candle flickering at night from up to 30 miles away. livescience.comNerve impulses travel to and from the brain at speeds of up to 250 miles per hour, faster than a Formula 1 racecar.sciencemuseum.org.ukWhen you blush, the lining of your stomach blushes too.
The human brain can read up to 1,000 words per minute.spritzinc.comInside your belly button are thousands of bacteria that form an ecosystem the size of an entire rainforest.news.nationalgeographic.comWhen in love, the human brain releases the same cocktail of neurotransmitters and hormones that are released by amphetamines. This leads to increased heart rate, loss of appetite and sleep, and intense feelings of excitement. en.wikipedia.org
You can see ultraviolet light, the ability is just filtered out by the eye’s lens. Some people have undergone surgery to remove the lense and can detect ultraviolet light.en.wikipedia.orgAn adult is made up of 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms. For perspective, there’s a ‘measly’ 300,000,000,000 (300 billion) stars in our galaxy. theguardian.comOur muscles are actually incredibly more powerful than they appear to be. Human strength is limited to protect our tendons and muscles from harming themselves. This limitation can be removed during an adrenaline rush, during which some people have lifted boulders or even cars off themselves.wikipedia.org
We humans are the best long-distance runners on the planet. Better than any four-legged animal. In fact, thousands of years ago we used to run after our prey until they ran themselves to death. slate.comA full head of human hair is strong enough to support 12 tonnes.theguardian.comIn 30 minutes, the human body gives off enough heat to bring a gallon of water to the boiltheguardian.comWe have the same amount of hairs on our body as a chimpanzee. Most are useless and so fine that they are invisible.theguardian.comThe atoms that make up your human body today are same atoms that formed during the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago.theguardian.com
Human bone is as strong as granite. A block of bone the size of a matchbox could support nine tonnes of weight.listverse.comIf the human brain were a computer, it could perform 38 thousand-trillion operations per second. The world’s most powerful supercomputer, BlueGene, can manage only .002% of that.scientificamerican.comThe focusing muscles in your eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you’d need to walk 50 miles. listverse.com
For every pound of fat or muscle gained, your body creates seven miles of new blood vesselsarticles.mercola.comHumans share 50% of their DNA with bananas. nhm.ac.ukLoneliness is physically painful. Just as you have a drive to avoid physical pain, you have a similarly powerful drive to connect with others and seek companionship - in order to avoid the pain of loneliness.articles.mercola.com
A single human sperm contains the 37.5mb of male DNA required to create a human child. That means an average ejaculation sees the transfer of 1,500 terabytes of information.gizmodo.comYour body produces 25 million new cells each second. Every 13 seconds, you produce more cells than there are people in the United States.medindia.net
Humans are bioluminescent and glow in the dark. The light that we emit is 1,000 times weaker than our human eyes are able to pick up.io9.com
Humans shed 40 pounds of skin in their lifetime, completely replacing their outer skin every month.listverse.comIn one day, your blood travels 12,000 miles around your body. That’s four times the distance across the US from coast-to-coast.health.howstuffworks.comOur brain’s connected neurons look similar to the structure of the universe. In a way, our brains are modeled after the universe. disinfo.comAround 90% of the cells that make humans aren’t “human” in origin. We’re mostly fungi and bacteria.discovermagazine.com
Along with the five traditional senses of sound, sight, touch, smell and taste, humans have 15 “other senses.” These include balance, temperature, pain and time as well as internal senses for suffocation, thirst, and fullness.en.wikipedia.orgYou’re a little richer than you might think. Inside all of us is around 0.2 milligrams of gold, most of which is in our blood Sadly, you’d need the blood of around 40,000 people to collect enough gold to make one 8g coin.telegraph.co.ukThe human brain uses 20% of the entire body’s oxygen and calorie intake, despite only accounting for about 2% of an adult’s body mass. listverse.comIf you stretched out the 300,000,000 capillaries in your lungs end to end, the line would extend from Seattle to San Diego, or about 1,300 miles.listverse.comSome women see more colors than everyone else. Most people have three types of color receptors to see color vision, while some women have four or even five of these receptors and can see a wider range of colors.articles.mercola.com
A condition called synesthesia can cause senses to overlap. In other words, some people can taste words or hear colors.articles.mercola.comThe need to breathe so much is due to carbon dioxide buildup more than the need for oxygen. If there was a different way to get rid of carbon dioxide from the blood, we would only need to breathe at a rate of about once per minute.Crying alleviates stress and allows humans to decrease feelings of anger and sadness. It physically does help to let it out.huffingtonpost.comWe also produce differently structured tears depending on the reason we’re crying. When put under the microscope, crying over grief, hope, or onions all produced a unique tear.Grief
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