Here are some of the Amazing Biological Facts
- The largest cell in the human body is an egg or ovum and is barely visible to the naked eye.→
- A human skeleton renews itself completely every 10 year
- A human’s ears and nose never stop growing.
- Bone is five times stronger than a steel bar of the same width, but it is brittle and can fracture on impact.
- The body can detect taste in .0015 seconds, which is faster than the blink of an eye.
- Dolphins sleep half awake. They keep one eye open ,breathing conciously and float on the water surface.
- Ever thought why the doctor, checks your tongue with a torch at the first instance? The reason is, our tongue acts as a mirror of our health. Certain diseases have the tendency to change the colour of your tongue.
- How do ants eat? Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sideways like scissors to extract the juices from the food.
- Thirst not only occurs when the body loses a lot of fluids but also occurs due to increased levels of salt in the blood. The reason being salt tends to bind water.
- Human life expectancy would increase by 9.8 years if all the major cardiovascular diseases were eliminated.
- Our bone marrow produces 260 billion red blood cells (RBCs) and 135 billion white blood cells (WBCs) per day.
- - The Barbados Thread snake: is the world's smallest snake species known →
- The strongest muscle in the human body is Masseter.
- "Eructation" is the medical word for burping.
- "Coprastasophobia" is the fear of constipation
- Matthias Schlitte (b. 1987) was born with a rare bone disorder that made his right arm bigger than his left. Rather than seeing this as a weakness, he became a professional arm wrestler →
- The shape of eyebrows can predict a person's personality. Straight eyebrows indicate that someone is more fact-oriented and direct. Slightly curved eyebrows suggest that someone is more people-oriented.
"Onychophagia" is the medical name for nail biting.
- The fastest muscles in a human body are the ones that make the eyes blink. They can contract in less than one-hundredth of a second. In just one day, a person may blink their eyes over 11,500 times.