Pound for pound, the human body produces five times as much heat as the sun.
Per day, the human brain produces more electrical impulses than all the telephones in the world combined.
If you could take the instructions encoded in the DNA of a single cell, you could fill a 1,000 volume Encyclopaedia.
The air propelled from a human cough travels at a speed approaching 600 miles per hour.
A human foetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
Until you reach the age of six or seven months, you can breathe and swallow simultaneously.
Human bones are twice as resistant to compression than granite.
Human thigh bones have a greater pressure tolerance and bearing strength than steel.
There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people on Earth.
The brain is not sensitive to pain.
The human brain continues to send out electrical wave signals for 37 hours after death.
The human brain is capable of recording over 86 million bits of information daily.
The human brain is more active when sleeping than when watching television.
If telephone numbers were 10 digits long (excluding area codes) then we wouldn't be able to store them in our short term memory.
Unlike dogs and pigs, human beings cannot taste water.
The human body contains muscles which can move the ears, but they no longer work.
50,000 cells in your body died in the time it took you to read this sentence. Don't worry, they were all replaced by new ones.
It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
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Paraphrased from The World's Greatest Book of Useless Information.
Per day, the human brain produces more electrical impulses than all the telephones in the world combined.
If you could take the instructions encoded in the DNA of a single cell, you could fill a 1,000 volume Encyclopaedia.
The air propelled from a human cough travels at a speed approaching 600 miles per hour.
A human foetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
Until you reach the age of six or seven months, you can breathe and swallow simultaneously.
Human bones are twice as resistant to compression than granite.
Human thigh bones have a greater pressure tolerance and bearing strength than steel.
There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people on Earth.
The brain is not sensitive to pain.
The human brain continues to send out electrical wave signals for 37 hours after death.
The human brain is capable of recording over 86 million bits of information daily.
The human brain is more active when sleeping than when watching television.
If telephone numbers were 10 digits long (excluding area codes) then we wouldn't be able to store them in our short term memory.
Unlike dogs and pigs, human beings cannot taste water.
The human body contains muscles which can move the ears, but they no longer work.
50,000 cells in your body died in the time it took you to read this sentence. Don't worry, they were all replaced by new ones.
It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
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Paraphrased from The World's Greatest Book of Useless Information.
Thanks for the info, very interesting stuff.
