Body Facts

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The human body is a machine that is full of wonder. This collection of human body facts will leave you wondering why in the heck we were designed the way we were. Scientists say the higher your I.Q. The more you dream. The largest cell in the human body is the female egg. The smallest is the male sperm. You …

Our eyes grow so little that they are perceived not to grow. An infant’s eyes are about 19 mm and will grow to 24-25 mm in adulthood. This slight growth may be cause for many to believe that our eyes are the same size from birth.  

Air is not completely clean, the food we eat may have insignificant amounts of toxic, the products that we use on our skin and hair are also toxic. Water removes the dangerous toxins that are added into our body.

The risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.  German researchers observed that the risk of a heart attack is 33 percent higher on Monday than on any other day, possibly because of the stress of starting the work week. Our body always remembers and anticipates stressful events. So, even though the participants …

It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.

A normal person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.

You grow by about 8mm (O.3in) every night when you are asleep, but shrink to your former height the following day.

Bone is five times stronger than steel.