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Interesting facts about human body:

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Man, who smokes bundle cigarette during the day, drinks half cup of resin per year.
Kids grow faster in the springtime.
Human's teeth are almost as strong as stone.
When we smile 17 muscles work.
Spine has 33 or 34 vertebrae.
Human head weighs 7 pounds.
Human DNA contains order 80 000 genes.
Fingernails grow 4 times faster than toenails.
Our nose and ears never stop growing.
When we sneeze our heart stops for a millisecond.
Most people hear better out of their right ear.
Person's ears are unique.
The human brain generates electric impulses more than of all phones of the world together taken.
With strong light man loses his ability to see. This phenomenon calls "snowy blindness".
The total weight of the bacteria, which live in the human body is 2 kilograms.
Each finger of the person bents approximately 25 million times during a life.
100 000 chemical reactions occur (per1second) in our brain.
Children are born without the knee cups. They appear only in the age of 2-6 years.
The surface area of human lungs is approximately equal to tennis Kort's area.
Human's skin consists twenty feet of blood vessels and 32 million bacteria (in each square inch).
From the moment of generation ,human brain has 14 billion cells, and this number does not increase till death.
In one minute, spent by you on reading page, die about 70 cells.
In psychiatry the syndrome, which is accompanied by depersonalization, by the disturbance of the perception of time and space, its own body and surrounding situation, officially it is called “Alice in the country of miracles”.

The size of heart of the person is approximately equal to size of its fist. The weight of heart of the adult person is 220-260 gr.
Into structure of a human body enters only 4 minerals: apatite, aragonite, cultist and kristobalit.
The small intestine has length 2.5 meters. After death, when the musculature of the wall of gut weakens, its length reaches 6 meters.
Men sweat approximately to 40% more than woman.
Person will die within 8 to 24 hours if his liver ever stops working.
The right lung contains more air, than left does.
Adult person makes the approximately 23 000 inhalations (and expirations) during the day.
For the all life female organism reproduces 7 million egg cells.
Human eye is capable to distinguish 10 000 000 color nuances.
In the mouth of man of approximately 40 000 bacteria.
Papaphobiya is the fear of Pope.
Men are considered midget with height below 130 cm, women are below 120 cm.
To sneeze with the open eyes is impossible.
Leukocytes in the human organism live 2-4 days, and erythrocytes - 3-4 months.
Women blink approximately 2 times more frequently than man.
Smallest cells in the organism are cells of sperm.
Strongest muscle in the human body is tongue.
Human heart can beat up to 40 000 000 times per year.
Child has 300 bones, adult has only 206.
Human body contains as much fat, as is necessary for the production of 7 pieces of soap.
Nerve pulses in the human body move with a speed 90 meters per second.
Human hair is thicker than the soap firm approximately 5000 times.
Men suffers from color-blindness10 times more than women .
The stomach juice contains 0.4% of hydrochloric acid.
Almost half of all bones are located in the wrists and the soles.
People with the blue eyes are more sensitive to the pain, than people with other eye colors.
Nails on the fingers grow approximately 4 times faster than on the legs.
Skin changes approximately 1000 times (for the life).
Every person has tongue print.
There are more than 100 different viruses, which cause head cold.
If you struck your head against the wall for 1 hour you will lose 150 calories.
Body has 75 kilometers of nerves.
Blondes beard grows more rapidly than dark-haired persons beard does.
Bulimia is the unstoppable appetite.
Human heart creates a pressure, capable to splash the blood into 10 meters.
Our eyelash lives about 5 months.
The epidemic of the influenza in 1918-1919 took away the lives of more than 20 million people (in USA and Europe)
Person laughs about 5 times a day.
Spermatozoid is the smallest single cell of body. Egg cell is the largest.
We drink about 16,000 gallons of water during life time.
If real woman had proportions of the Barbie doll, she could be able to move only on 4 extremities.
All the chemicals in a human body combined are estimated to be worth about 6.25 Euro.
Our scalp has 100,00 hairs.
In the Russian and English there is no word for the name reverse part of the elbow.
When you redden, your stomach reddens also.
Every time you watch 101 Dalmatians you'll see 6,469,951 black spots.
25 muscles work when we swallow.
Dust consists 70% of the discarded skin.
There is more risk of heart attack on Monday than any other day of the week.
Tooth is unique part of the man, who has ability to be self-restored.
The brain has 80% of the water.
One hair can maintain weight in 3 kg.
Women's heart beats faster than men.
Average human head weighs 3,6 kg.
Sneezing can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
Chance to die of the dropping from the bed is approximately equal to chance to die of the lightning stroke (1 to 2.000.000).
Our soul weighs 21 grams.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes opened.
It takes 43 muscles to frown.
Human will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Without sleep death will occur about 10 days, while starvation takes a few weeks.
Person moves about 40 times at night.
Humans body contains about 70% of water.
Our head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.
We lose from 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
Human are the only animals who can smile.
Person can't get his elbow with his own tongue. 75% of people who rote it try to to that.
Human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.
Person eats about 70 insects for life.
When you smile or laugh loud, the work of your heart is improved and excess calories are burnt.
In the body of person there are approximately one hundred trillion cells, but only tenth part of them is human cells. The rest are microbes.
Person begins to understand himself in the mirror at age 12- of 18 months.
Signals of the nerve system of the human reach the speed of 288 km/h.
Beard consists of 7-15 thousands hair. It grows at a rate of 14 centimeters per year.
Body of the sleeping human is half centimeter longer than keeping awake.
The smell of people, which recently ate bananas, draws gnats more.