Fun Body Facts 55 Q

The ____is the body’s largest organ and can make up 15% of a person’s total weight.

The cracking sound your knuckles makes comes from______in your joints.

Goose bumps evolved to make our ancestors’ hair stand up, making them appear more threatening to predators

The heart beats more than___ billion times in the average human lifespan.

The average person has __ different species of bacteria in their belly button.

You are about ___ mm taller in the morning than the evening

Your blood has the same amount of salt in it as the _____ does

If all of the blood vessels in the human body were laid end to end, they would encircle the Earth ____times.

The human nose can detect about _____ smells.

You can produce enough saliva to fill ____ bathtubs a year

Blood makes up about ___% of your total body weight.

The foot is one of the least ticklish parts of the body.

Our eyes remain the same size as they were at birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Hair grows fast, about ___inches per year.

Your fingernails grow after you’re dead.

Your body has more than ____ muscles

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood ___ feet in the air.

On average, a person says about _____ words in 24 hours.

You have the same number of bones in your neck as a giraffe

The largest muscle in your body is the one you are sitting on!

Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil.

As you breathe, most of the air is going in and out of one nostril. Every few hours, shifts to the other nostril.

You have two kidneys and need both of them to live.

The tooth is the only body part that can't heal itself

The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades.

Your heart beats about ___times a day

Humans can breathe and swallow at the same time.

We all have tiny mites living in our eyelashes

The average nose produces about a ______of nasal mucus every day

Scientists aren't exactly sure why we yawn, but it may help regulate body temperature

A cough blows air out of your mouth at about _____ miles per hour

Your tongue is made up of _____ interwoven muscles, similar to an elephant’s trunk or an octopus’s tentacle.

The smallest bone in your body is in your ___

Humans are the only living species known to blush.

Human beings are the only living things who sleep on their ______.

We share 98.4% of our DNA with a chimp and 70% with a

A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day is doing the equivalent of drinking half a cup of tar a year.

Thumbs have their own pulse.

Women blink about____ times less often than men.

Earwax is a type of sweat!

Your mouth produces about one litre of saliva each day!

Fingernails grow about _____ times faster than your toenails.

Babies don’t shed actual tears until they’re at least one _ old.

The word “muscle” comes from Latin term "musculus" meaning “little mouse“,

If you walked for 12 hours a day, it would take the average person_____days to walk around the world.

A newborn child can breathe and swallow at the same time for up to seven months.

At birth, a child's body is made up of around 300 bones. But an adult has just 206.

Walking uses a total of ___ muscles with every step you take.

The human feet have 52 bones, 1/4 of all the human body’s bones.

Belly buttons grow special hairs to catch lint and fluff

It’s possible to brush your teeth too aggressively.

Human teeth are just as strong as shark teeth

A sneeze blows air out of your nose at about _____ miles per hour

Hiccups can last a very long time. Charles Osborne had hiccups for a total of___years without stopping!

Humans are the only animals with chins.