10 Miraculous Facts about the Human Body

There are plenty of miraculous facts about the human body that you may have never heard of or thought about before. Here are 10 surprising facts.

1. The human heart beats about 100,000 times per day on average, more than 3 billion times in a lifetime.
2. Scientists estimate that the human nose can distinguish more than a trillion different scents.
3. Humans are the only species known to blush.
4. When you are asleep, your brain is even more active than when you are awake.
5. In Latin, the word “muscle” means “little mouse” because the ancient Romans thought that the shape of a bicep looks like the body of a mouse. There are more than 600 muscles in your body. The strongest muscle is the masseter, one of the jaw muscles. The weakest muscle is the stapedius, found in the middle ear.
6. You lose about 4kg of skin cells every year! Skin plays an important role in protecting your body against bacteria, which is why the outer layer of skin constantly regenerates itself. The process of skin cell regeneration takes about 28 days.
7. Human teeth are as strong as shark teeth. Surprised?
8. Your height measured in the morning is taller than in the evening, as the cartilage compresses into the bone, reducing your height after a day of working and standing around.
9. While in the womb and before one month of age, a baby’s eyes do not shed tears.
10. A sneeze can release up to 40,000 droplets of saliva into the air at an incredible speed of 160 km/h.