27Feb/080
100 weird facts about your body
- Your brain uses 20% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream.
- The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
- The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades.
- The human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels.
- Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
- Women blink twice as many times as men do.
- If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
- Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.
- Your eyes are always the same size from birth but your nose and ears never stop growing.
- We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening.
- The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body.
....and many more facts about the human body that you might or might not have known. Each piece of information is backed up with a brief description/explanation, and overall it makes for a very interesting read. Read the whole article here.