35 Interesting facts about our body that show how it is a perfect machine

The human body is a fantastic machine. Its harmonic functioning is surprising even to scholars in the field, and we talk a little about it in a post on our website. It is formed by countless cells, which form tissues, organs and systems; a complex and perfect machine with all its parts working in sync. But it brings with it a number of interesting trivia that will make your jaw drop.

we, from awesome.club, we list no less than 35 curiosities about various parts of the human body that will surprise you even more and will show that nature did an excellent job, check it out!

The skin is the largest organ of the human body. Yes!, the skin is an organ. It corresponds to 16% of body weight.

The right kidney is always slightly lower than the left kidney and they are different heights. They together filter up to 2 liters of urine a day.

Bones begin to form from the second month of pregnancy. An adult skeleton has an average of 213 bones.

The only bacteria capable of withstanding the acidic environment of the stomach is the Helicobacter pyloribetter known as H. pylori, which causes ulcer and stomach cancer.

We are able to “digest” the gum, so it’s okay to swallow it. Yes… Unfortunately we need to tell you that your grandmother only said that because she wanted to scare you! The digestive system absorbs the sugar and other compounds, but the latex, which is the basis of the candy, will be eliminated by the intestine along with the other products not used by your body.

The arteries, veins and capillaries in the human body, if they are added and stretched, measure about 100 thousand kilometers, that is, with such a longitude, they could travel 2.5 times around the Earth.

Spinal discs work like the shock absorbers of a car, they make it possible for us to run, jump, turn the head and torso.

On average, the heart beats 60 to 100 times per minute at rest and 30 to 40 times in sleep.

The human being blinks an average of 25 thousand times a day, the eyelashes have the function of preventing all kinds of dirt and strong light from entering the eyes and the eyebrows hold the sweat that runs down the forehead.

Sneezing reaches an incredible 150 kilometers per hour, spreading around 40,000 infectious droplets, and we automatically close our eyes to protect our tear ducts and blood vessels.

Our intestine produces gases and 99% of them are odorless, while the 1% that is fetid occurs because of the sulfur in the mixture that can worsen with the consumption of onions, eggs and beans.

An empty stomach has a volume of 50 milliliters and can hold up to 4 liters of food. It can thus increase up to 80 times its size when empty.

As already mentioned, an adult blinks 25 thousand times a day, and this movement serves to lubricate the eyes, and the act of blinking lasts only tenths of a second, but it depends on the mood and state of health of the person.

A University of California study concluded that humans have a nose that helps with navigation, being programmed to transform odors into spatial information.

For every liter of sweat that evaporates in an exercise, for example, we lose 580 kilocalories from the body.

The appendix is ​​an organ that was part of the digestive system of our ancestors and that today has important antibodies for the human body, the well-known good germs.

Laughter stimulates the production of endorphins, serotonin, dopamine and adrenaline that decrease pain, lower blood pressure, improve memory, decrease stress hormones and prevent wrinkles.

The brain has 86 billion neurons and is very similar to the inside of a walnut. Furthermore, if its billions of cells were measured, we would have an area of ​​more than 1 square meter.

In a normal adult there are about 150,000 hairs and they grow on average 1 centimeter per month. They are further classified into 4 basic colors and 11 types.

According to the intensity of the urge to urinate, we can know how much urine we have in the bladder; if it’s light and you can handle it you have an average of 250 milliliters, but if you’re already desperate to use the bathroom you have an average of 800 milliliters.

Every fingerprint is unique, and every human being also has a unique pattern in the iris (the colored part of the eyes). Some people do not have fingerprints and the name of this problem is Nagali Syndrome.

The brain has an amount of energy that can light a light bulb. It has an average of 60% fat, which corresponds to 2% of its total weight.

When eating, the taste is helped by the sense of smell when it comes to tasting food, so it is not so tasty when we have a cold, for example.

The heart, on average, is the size of its owner’s closed hand; if you close your hands you will see the approximate size of your heart.

The largest bone in the human body is the femur that is in the thigh and it supports no less than 30 times the weight of a person.

How curious to know that 1/4 of the bones in the human body are in the feet and they have different sizes. This is fantastic!

The thumb is a finger on the opposite side to the others and makes the so-called pinch, so we can rotate it at an angle of up to 90º and the other fingers we can only rotate it at an angle of 45º. In addition, he is the only one that makes the movement perpendicular to the center of the palm.

In the first decades of the last century, the life expectancy of Brazilians was 40 years and, in less than a century, according to the IBGE, in 2014, it more than doubled to 75.4 years.

Headache and other hangover symptoms happen because of dehydration caused by drinking too much alcohol.

A human DNA molecule is about 2 meters long, encapsulated in a 6 µm cell nucleus, it is as if we fit 40 kilometers into a regular tennis ball.

Within 72 hours of a person’s death, the enzymes that help digest food begin the body’s own “digestion.”

Exercise increases the immunity of the human body, especially in the elderly where, over the years, it begins to become deficient.

The tongue is the strongest and most flexible muscle in the human body, and it has about 3,000 taste buds.

The human body contains about 65% water, the same percentage as the body of mice. We can survive just over 30 days without solid food, but only two or three days without water.

The mandible is a mobile bone and is the largest and strongest present in the face.

Did you find the curiosities we listed for you surprising? Know anything else that should be here that wasn’t listed? Leave a comment.