Humans and Human Body

Humans and Human Body:

If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.

If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The average person laughs 13 times a day.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

When cats are happy or pleased, they squeeze their eyes shut

The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees

The tongue is the only body muscle that is attached from one end only.

During thinking, we use on about 35% of our brains.

We, as humans, forget 90% of our dreams

Approximately two-thirds of people tip their head to the right when they kiss

Laughter is a proven way to lose weight

During good sex, endorphins are released, which are powerful painkillers. So headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.  Another one that was proven wrong by Mythbusters.

Your foot is the same length as your forearm.

If you plug your nose you can't hum (keep your mouth close too).

On average, a woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s heart.

The skin of the average woman weighs 3 kilograms, while that of the average man weighs 5 kilograms

Married men tip better than unmarried men.

The human brain is 80% water

Moderate dancing burns 250 to 300 calories an hour

Your thumb is the same length as your nose

Human eye detects 10 million colours

Women blink nearly twice as much as men

The human heart beats over 100,000 times a day

Human fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails

One quarter of the bones in the human body is in the feet

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV

The total weight of skin for an average adult human is 6 pounds.

Kissing helps prevent tooth decay

Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do

Women are more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are

Adding a drop of olive oil and lemon juice to an ice cube then running it over your face gives you better results than some expensive skin care products.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below

Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.

Lips are 100 times more sensitive than the tips of the fingers. Not even genitals have as much sensitivity as lips

The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won\'t be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount.

There are 35 million digestive glands in the stomach.

The average person can live 11 days without water.

The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change

More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products

It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk