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21-40 Human Body Facts

Most people can't sneeze with their eyes open. Suppressing a sneeze can cause damage to your body.

Most people blink about 25 times per minute.

The fastest moving muscle in the human body is the one that opens and closes the eyelid.

All babies are color blind when they are born.

You forget 50-80% of what you learn each day if you do nothing with the new information, such as review, rethink or reread it, on the same day.

Childhood dreams are shorter than adult dreams and nearly 40% of them are nightmares, which may act as a coping mechanism

2/3 of the human body is made up of water.

The condition known as "broken heart syndrome" has effects similar to a heart attack. It can be caused by a breakup or physical separation from a loved one.
Our Brain has over 100 billion nerve cells.

On an average, the human blood circulates the body for every 23 seconds.

People who clean their teeth often have 1,000 to 100,000 bacteria living on each tooth, while less clean mouths can have between 100 million to a billion bacteria on each tooth.

The human liver performs about 500 functions.

People who meet their calcium need reduce their risk of developing kidney stones.

On average, a man spends about five months of his life shaving.

Laid end to end, the arteries, capillaries, and veins of an average adult measure about 60,000 miles, enough to wrap around the earth nearly two and a half times.

In a lifetime, the human kidneys clean over 1 million gallons of blood.

The human body is composed of 80% of water.
Nails and corneas are the only two tissues in the body that do not receive oxygen from blood.

The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.


The DNA of humans is closer to a rat than a cat.

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