14 interesting facts about the human body that not everyone knows (9 photos)

The human body is unique in many ways. It is a complex system that performs millions of chemical reactions every second. This post contains unique and stunning facts about our body, which you may learn for the first time.





1. Humans have almost the same amount of hair on their bodies as chimpanzees.



2. Healthy human skin weighs about 4.5 kilograms, making it the heaviest organ in the body.

3. Sleeping burns fewer calories than watching TV





4. Children have more taste buds than adults.



5. Sometimes babies are born with one or two teeth already erupted, but it is extremely rare to have more.



6. The average person produces more than 21,000 liters of saliva in a lifetime, enough to fill fifty bathtubs to the brim.

7. Holding in your sneezes too often can damage your hearing.



8. Every second, more than two million red blood cells die in the adult body

9. Teeth prints are as unique as fingerprints.



10. About 98% of the atoms in the human body are replaced every year

11. A tear consists of three layers - an inner mucus layer, a watery middle layer and an outer oily layer.



12. The left lung is slightly smaller than the right so that there is room for our heart

13. Every hour we lose 30,000 to 40,000 skin cells. In 24 hours this means almost a million, and in a year - more than 3.5 kilograms



14. Babies cry in the womb, but they do it silently