100 Facts About the Human Body
- The 3 things pregnant women dream most of during their first trimester are frogs, worms and potted plants.
- If the average man never shaved his beard it would grow to over 30 feet during his lifetime, longer than a killer whale.
- On any given day, sexual intercourse takes place 120 million times on earth.
- Babies are almost always born with blue eyes. The melanin in a newborn’s eyes often needs time after birth to be fully deposited or to be darkened by exposure to ultraviolet light.
- The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you’ll have a bad dream.
- It’s possible to survive even with the removal of the stomach, the spleen, 75 percent of the liver, 80 percent of the intestines, one kidney, one lung, and virtually every organ from the pelvic and groin area.
- The indentation in the middle of the area between the nose and the upper lip is called the philtrum.
- If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
- Humans can make do longer without food than sleep. The longest recorded time anyone has ever gone without sleep is 11 days.
- A human head can remain conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.
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