Elite Facts Presents
13 Amazing Facts About The Human Body
13 -Don’t let it’s name fool you!
The largest internal organ in the human body is the small intestine.
Despite being called the smaller of the two intestines, your small intestine is actually
four times as long as an average adult’s height.
If it weren’t looped back and forth upon itself it wouldn’t fit inside the abdominal
cavity.
12 -So it goes without say that the heart is one of the most power muscles in the human
body, But the real question is “How Powerful is it?”
Don’t worry this isn’t a philosophical question like “How powerful is the power
of love?”
The human heart is so powerful that it creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet.
Now it sort of makes sense as to why we can feel our heartbeat so easily.
Pumping blood through your body quickly and efficiently takes quite a bit of pressure
resulting in the strong contractions of the heart and the thick walls of the ventricles
which push blood to the body.
11 -So it should come as no surprise that our stomachs contain strong acid, However
i think it’s weird how much we sort of underestimate how powerful it really it.
The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades.
While you certainly shouldn’t test the fortitude of your stomach by eating a razor blade or
any other metal object for that matter, the acids that digest the food you eat aren’t
to be taken lightly.
Hydrochloric acid, the type found in your stomach, is not only good at dissolving the
pizza you had for dinner but can also eat through many types of metal.
Considering how strong it is, it’s kind of amazing that our stomachs can handle acid
as strong as that.
The only reason the acid in your stomach doesn't eat right through your body is because the
stomach cells are renewed faster than they are destroyed.
Basically, Your stomach is Wolverine.
10.
-So with our hearts being right where our lungs are behind our ribcages, you’re probably
wondering how both our heart and lungs function with such little space to work with.
Well as it turns out, your left lung is much smaller than your right lung to make room
for your heart.
For most people, if they were asked to draw a picture of what the lungs look like they
would draw both looking roughly the same size.
While the lungs are fairly similar in size, the human heart, though located fairly centrally,
is tilted slightly to the left making it take up more room on that side of the body and
crowding out that poor left lung.
9.
- So while let’s say a bloodhound’s nose may be a million times more sensitive than
a human’s nose, that doesn’t mean that the human sense of smell is useless.
In face our noses are pretty damn sensitive!
Did you know that your nose can remember up to 50,000 different scents.
Humans can identify a wide variety of scents and many are strongly tied to memories of
their past.
I know it’s a silly example but let’s just say your mom made the best cake ever.
So good in fact that you can even remember the scent of it.
10 years later you’ll probably still remember the scent.
That how strong our noses are.
8.
-Anyone with a beard will know this one.
Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body.
In fact, if the average man never shaved his beard it would grow to over 30 feet during
his lifetime.
To put this into comparison for you, that’s the length of an adult killer whale.
Crazy right?
7.
-Our brains are probably the most fascinating part of our bodies.
Did you know that the brain is much more active at night than during the day.
Now in terms of logic, you would probably think that all the moving around, complicated
calculations and tasks and general interaction we do on a daily basis during our working
hours would take a lot more brain power than, say, lying in bed.
Turns out, the opposite is true.
When you turn off your brain turns on.
Scientists don’t yet know why this is but you can thank the hard work of your brain
while you sleep for all those pleasant dreams.
6.
-Here’s a small random fact you may not have known.
So reaction times differentiate between us humans.
So have you ever wondered to yourself how you can react so fast to things around you
or why that stubbed toe hurts almost instantly?
Well that’s because It’s due to the super-speedy movement of nerve impulses from your brain
to the rest of your body and vice versa.
It is estimated that Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles
per hour.
That’s right, this brings your reactions to the speed of a high powered luxury sports
car!
5.
-The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
No we’re serious!
The nail on your middle finger of your dominant hand will grow the fastest of all.
The reason as to why the nail of your middle finger of your dominant hand grows the fastest
is not entirely known, but nail growth is related to the length of the finger, with
the longest fingers growing nails the fastest and shortest the slowest.
Needless to say, If you wanted to really flip the bird at someone you just can’t stand,
Grow your fingernail out for a month and have at it!
4.
-So Sleep and food is pretty essential to our lives, However a lost of us tend to take
sleep for granted in our daily lives and tend to prioritize food over most other daily needs.
Well did you know that Humans can make do longer without food than sleep.
While you might feel better prepared to stay up all night partying than to give up eating,
that feeling will be relatively short lived.
Provided there is water, the average human could survive a month to two months without
food depending on their body fat and other factors.
Sleep deprived people, however, start experiencing radical personality and psychological changes
after only a few sleepless days.
The longest recorded time anyone has ever gone without sleep is 11 days, at the end
of which the experimenter was awake, but stumbled over words, hallucinated and frequently forgot
what he was doing.
3.
- So did you know that as newborns, we had nearly 100 more bones than we do as grown
adults?
Babies are born with 300 bones, However, by the time we hit adulthood, the number of bones
in our body is reduced to 206.
Strange right?
The reason for this is that many of the bones of children are composed of smaller component
bones that are not yet fused like those in the skull.
This makes it easier for the baby to pass through the birth canal.
The bones harden and fuse as the children grow.
2.
-Along with the Heart, The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
While you may not be able to bench press much with your tongue, it is in fact the strongest
muscle in your body in proportion to its size.
If you think about it, every time you eat, swallow or talk you use your tongue.
Our tongues probably get the best work out of all the muscles within our body as we’re
constantly using it on a daily basis to perform all the previously mentioned tasks.
1.
Although The human body may appear fragile, it is actually possible to survive even with
the removal of some of the most essential organs you have such as 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.
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