Man : Bodies Uniqueness (Amazing Bodies)




Our bodies truly are amazing.

The Brain
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  • The brain doesn’t feel pain.

  • Your brain has huge oxygen needs: Your brain requires 20 percent of oxygen and makes up two percent of total body weight.

  • 80% of the brain is water.

  • Your brain comes out to play at night: Your brain is more active when you sleep.

  • Your brain operates on 10 watts of power.

  • A higher I.Q. equals more dreams: The smarter you are, the more you dream.

  • The brain changes shapes during puberty: impulsive, risky behavior.

  • Your brain can store everything: experience, see, read or hear. Problem is recalling — whether you can access that information.

  • Information in your brain travels at different speeds: This is why sometimes you can recall information instantly, and sometimes it takes a little longer.
Your Senses
You might be surprised at the amazing things your various senses can accomplish.









Your Senses









  • Your smell is unique: Your body odor is unique to you. Babies recognize the individual scents of their mothers.

  • Humans use echolocation: Humans use sound to sense objects in their area using echolocation esp. the blind

  • Adrenaline gives you super strength: can lift a car.

  • Women smell better than men: Women are better at identifying smells.

  • Your nose remembers 50,000 scents.

  • Your hearing decreases when you overeat: So consider eating healthy — and only until you are full.

  • Your sense of time is in your head: How you experience time is all about your perception.
Reproduction
How we as a species reproduce offers all sorts of interesting weird facts. Here are some of the weirder things you might not know.

  • Your teeth grows before birth: about six months before you are born.

  • Babies are stronger. For their size, babies are quite powerful and strong.

  • Babies always have blue eyes when they are born: Melanin and exposure to ultraviolet light are needed to bring out the true color of babies’ eyes.
Body Functions
Body Functions
  • Earwax is necessary: Healthy ears, need earwax.

  • Your feet can produce a pint of sweat a day: There are 500,000 (250,000 for each) sweat glands in your feet.
  • Throughout your life, the amount of saliva could fill two swimming pools: Since saliva is a vital part of digestion.

  • A full bladder is about the size of a soft ball: When your bladder is full, holding up to 800 cc of fluid.

  • You probably pass gas 14 times a day: On average, expel flatulence as part of digestion.

  • A sneeze can exceed 100 mph.
  • Coughs leave at 60 mph.

 Musculoskeletal System
  • Bones can self-destruct: without enough calcium intake.

  • You are taller in the morning: cartilage between your bones is compressed, making you about 1 cm shorter by day’s end.

  • 1/4 of your bones are in your feet: 26 bones in each foot, 52 bones for 25 percent of body’s 206 bones.

  • It takes more muscles to frown than to smile.

  • When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles.

  • Your tongue is the strongest muscle in your body.

  • Bone can be stronger than steel: a pound for pound comparison.

Unnecessary Body Parts
  • Coccyx: This collection of fused vertebrae have no purpose these days, although scientists believe it’s what’s left of the mammal tail humans used to have.

  • Pinkie toe: pinkie toe‘s evolutionary purpose is disappearing.

  • Wisdom teeth: This third set of molars is largely useless.

  • Vomeronasal organ: There are tiny (and useless) chemoreceptors lining the inside of the nose.

  • Most body hair: facial hair serves some purposes, rest of body is practically useless.

  • Female vas deferens: A cluster of dead end tubules near the ovaries are the remains of what could have turned into sperm ducts.

  • Male Uterus: The remains of this undeveloped female reproductive organ hangs on one side of the male prostate gland.

  • Appendix: It produce some white blood cells, most people are fine with an appendectomy.
Random Weird Body Facts

  • Your head creates inner noises: It’s rare, but exploding head syndrome exists.

  • Memory is affected by body position: Where you are and how you are placed in your environment triggers memory.

  • You can’t tickle yourself: Go ahead. Try to tickle yourself.

  • Only humans shed emotional tears: Every other animal that produces tears has a physiological reason for doing so

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