Funny Facts About Humans
People are more likely to tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left.
The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain.
You could remove a large part of your internal organs and survive.
The majority of American models are skinnier than 98% of American women.
The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
A baby is born every seven seconds.
The Dutch people are known to be the tallest people in Europe.
People have the tendency to chew the food on the side that they most often use their hand.
The most common time for a wake-up call is 7 AM.
The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.
The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
The three things pregnant women dream most of during their first trimester are frogs, worms and potted plants.
About 32 million bacteria call every inch of your skin home.
After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger. And the nail on the middle finger of your dominant hand will grow the fastest of all. Why is not entirely known, but nail growth is related to the length of the finger, with the longest fingers growing nails the fastest and shortest the slowest.
Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
On average, people spend more than five years of their lives dreaming.
An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
The surface area of a human lung is equal to a tennis court.
The average adult falls asleep seven minutes after turning out the light.
Nearly all boys grow at least as tall as their mothers.
The average human will eat one pound of insects in their lifetime.
It takes about 60 seconds for one blood cell to travel a full circuit of your body.
The average American spends six months at red lights throughout his or her life.
Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.
More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.
Humans are the only animals to sleep on their backs.
Sir Winston Churchill smoked an estimated 300,000 cigars in his lifetime.
Every time you lick a stamp you consume one tenth of a calorie.
Human stomachs produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks to stop it digesting itself.
Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
No pain in the brain! Do you know our brain does not feel pain. Even though brain processes pain signals, the brain itself actually does not feel pain.
The feet account for one quarter of all the human body's bones.
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
An adult human body contains approximately 100 trillion cells.
It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
An average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.
We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
Birth control pills designed for humans will also work for a gorilla.
People are much more likely to report being in "flow" on the job than during leisure.
Most people shed between 50 to 100 hairs every day.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.