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brain
  • Your brain uses less power than a mini flashlight, about 12 watts. Know more about this fact
  • The body can function without a brain. And anyone who has walked around the city on a Saturday night will know what I mean. (someone else said this)
  • Rice and other grains contain chemicals that can enhance brain function
  • Your brain is almost 80% water
  • Everyday, the human brain generates more electrical impulses than all the telephone wires in the world put together
  • Your brain weighs less than your skin

penis
  • Compared to other primates, human males have proportionally large genitalia

umbilicus
  • When you are born, your umbilicus is the best source of stem cells that can be used to generate every single cell in your body. If not harvested immediately, this source is lost forever

tonsils
  • Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they’ve been removed

veins, vessel
  • Laid end-to-end, the arteries, capillaries and veins would stretch for about 60,000 miles in the average child and would be about 100,000 miles in an adult - enough to wrap around the world nearly four times.

tongue
  • Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different
  • The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body

snot
  • The average person swallows one liter of snot every day. This is from the MN Science Museum. (and i bet you downed a few reading all this. hahaha) Thanx a girl named Ryan

nose
  • Your nose smells best when you are about 10 years old
  • Your nostrils take turns inhaling. You breathe through one for about 3-4 hours then switch to the other one. THIS IS TAKEN FROM THE GROSSOLOGY EXHIBITION: THE SCIENCE OF THE HUMAN BODY

liver
  • If a person has two thirds of their liver removed through trauma or surgery, it will grow back to the original size in four weeks time
  • Chicken liver can be used to change A type blood to O type blood

Intestine
  • Food passes through the small intestine in just two hours, zipping along at 0.002 mph. Inside the large intestine, it takes about 14 hours, traveling at a more leisurely rate of 0.00007 mph


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