The editors of Our site have collected for you 22 amazing facts about our body that will amaze you and make you think about a lot.
1. Your heart can also beat outside of your body.
2. Your heart pumps blood at a pressure that can spray that blood up to 10 meters away.
3. Real mites called demodex live in your eyelashes.
4. The average adult has ten times more bacteria than body cells.
5. If you put all your blood vessels (veins, arteries and capillaries) in one line, then this line will circle the globe twice.
6. And one more mind-blowing fact: there are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people on Earth.
7. In rare cases, people who have a damaged right frontal lobe can develop Gourmet Syndrome: an eating disorder where a person becomes obsessed with food and constantly thinks about delicious foods.
8. Another rare condition: people with exploding head syndrome, when falling asleep, hear loud sounds, similar to the explosion of a bomb.
9. By the way, a broken heart is not just a metaphor. Broken heart syndrome is similar to a heart attack and in most cases it is triggered by stressful or tragic situations.
10. When you blush, the lining of your stomach turns red too.
11. Some tumors can grow teeth and hair.
12. In the evening, when you go to bed, you are less tall than in the morning when you wake up.
13. After about 30 years, each subsequent decade, you decrease in height 1-1.5 cm.
14. By the age of 60, you will have lost almost half of your taste buds. So enjoy your meal while you can!
15. Kissing protects against tooth decay.
16. People are bioluminescent - yes, we glow - but this light is too weak, it is impossible to see it with the human eye.
17. In the 1940s, about 75% of Americans said they rarely, if ever, had colored dreams.
18. Humans - like all mammals - have a "diving reflex" that instinctively shuts off certain parts of the body to conserve energy when immersed in cold water.
19. Tears that are shed for different reasons - from sadness, happiness, or onions - actually have different compositions.
20. The brain in women decreases during pregnancy, it returns to its usual size only six months after giving birth.
21. A newborn baby has 90 more bones than an adult.
22. The anus is the first organ that develops in the human embryo. The mouth develops second.
