Body Facts

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.

The body’s largest organ is the skin. In an adult man it covers about 1.9m2 (20 square feet), a woman has about 1.6m2 (17 square feet).

Koala fingerprints are similar to human fingerprints, even with an electron microscope, it can be quite difficult to distinguish between the two.

Each kidney contains some 1 million individual filters.