How well do you know your body? Some of our doctors have shared the human body facts that fascinate them the most…
1. The brain requires one quarter of the oxygen used by the human body
2. Around 80 per cent of the brain is liquid due to the high blood and water content of the tissue
3. Your nose and ears continue growing throughout your life
4. The strongest muscle in the body is the masseter – the jaw muscle
5. Adult lungs have a surface area of around 70 square metres
6. Your heart beats around 365,000,00 times a year and 100,000 times a day
7. Healthy adults produce almost 200 billion new red blood cells each day
8. And red blood cells complete a circuit of the entire body every 60 seconds
9. Human noses can recall 50,000 different scents
10. We’re around 1cm shorter at night than first thing in the morning because the cartilage in our spines slowly compresses during the day
11. If the human eye was a digital camera it would have 576 megapixels
12. An adult is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms
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