- Because we all have a body and besides hormones, they're pretty much the same.
These crazy body facts might surprise you! Did you know you’re taller when you sleep at night?
- Your skeleton regenerates every 10 years so the bones
you have will be brand new in about that time. As you age, the process takes longer and leads to your bones naturally thinning. Did you know about this as one of the crazy body facts. - You’re taller in the morning than at night. All day, there’s pressure on your joints and as a result, you shrink a little. When your sleeping and your body is at rest, the pressure on your spinal disks is released.
- Your sweat doesn’t actually smell. Did you know that? It’s not the sweat itself that smells, but the interaction of our bacteria with sweat that produces a stench.
- The human body has over 60,000 miles of blood vessels, if laid out all in one straight line, of course. This is all the arteries, capillaries and veins, end-to-end.
- We shed our skin, kind of like a lizard. When a human, “sheds” their skin, they lose the entire outer layer of skin about twice a month of every to to four weeks. (That’s a rate of about 500 million cells a day.) Did you know this as one of the crazy body facts?
- When your stomach is grumbling, it’s because it’s full of a lot of hot air. Even after eating, your intestines go through a series of contractions that help move food and liquid along as you’re eating but even after, they move air through your digestive tract. The scientific word for your stomach rumbling is borborygmus.
- Babies don’t have knee caps, so their cartilage
gradually turns into bone between the ages of two and six years old. A bit crazier than that, kneecaps aren’t fully formed until young adulthood! - Our bones are stronger than steel and when put to the test are “ounce for ounce, stronger than steel.” The strongest bone in the human body, the femur, can support 30 times the weight of an average person.
- We produce so much saliva throughout our lifetime. The average human makes over 20,000 liters of saliva, or enough to fill up two swimming poots of spit. Did you know about all this spit as one of the crazy body facts?
- 25% of the bones in your body are in your feet. There are a total of 52 bones in your feet, or 26 bones in each foot! (There are also 33 joints and more than 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments!)
- The smallest bone in your entire body in in your ear. (This bone is in the middle of your ear, looks like a stirrup, has a base and an oval window and is covered with membranes that measure sound vibrations.)
- You lose almost a third of you bones as you age, seeing as your born with about 300 and only have about 206 left by the time you’re done growing.
- There aren’t any muscles in your fingers. Fingers are able to move because of tendons and bones and a lot of help from your palm muscles and the muscles at the base of each finger. Did you know these crazy body facts?
- Your pinkie might not seem like an important finger,
but it’s actually responsible for half on the strength of your hand. Losing your pinkie could lead to losing over half of your hand strength, according to hand therapist Laurie Rogers of National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington.
So what do you think of these crazy body facts? Let me know in the comments!