We don’t have to deal with medicine to be interested in the basics about our body. The human body is a fascinating system, which we can see every day. But in addition to annoying statistics, there are also those more interesting facts that are not the most famous thing in the world, but they will surely leave you amazed.
1. The largest organ in the body is the skin. In an adult it covers about 1.9 m2. The skin is constantly renewed - in the life of the average person, about 18kg of skin will be discarded and replaced with a new one.
2. When you sleep, you grow by about 8mm. The next day, lower yourself to your previous height. The reason for this is that the discs of cartilage contract like a sponge when standing or sitting.
3. The average person in the West eats about 50 tons of food and drinks about 50,000 liters of fluid during a lifetime.
4.The focal muscles of the eyes move about 100,000 times a day. In order for the leg muscles to achieve the same, they should walk 80 km every day.
5. Nerve impulses travel to and from the brain at a speed of 274 kilometers per hour.
6. The weight of a typical human brain is about 1.4 kg. The brain contains several billion neurons connected by hundreds of trillions of synapses.
It is estimated that the brain produces 70,000 different thoughts during the day.
7. Your nose can remember 50,000 different smells.
8. We all know that every human being has a unique fingerprint, but the fact is that we also have a unique language.
9. Babies are born with 350 bones, while adults have 206. As they grow older, some of the bones come together.
The progress of the human species has been due to the emergence of new, more complex traits during evolution.
We belong to true terrestrial vertebrates and as such we are adapted to the structure of our body.
We can say that the human organism is a very complex and harmonized system, and accordingly man belongs to the most developed class of vertebrates.
Very interesting, I learn a lot of new things!