10 more random and fun curiosities about the human body

1. You produce much more saliva than you think: a day, that's 500 ml on average, varying according to what you eat.

2. The human body has 160 billion blood vessels and if you stretched them straight you would probably be trapped you could go around the earth 4 times

3. Adding stomach, large intestine and small intestine you are 9 meters long, the height of a 3 story building

4. Children have between 90 and 95 more bones than adults. This is because as we get older some bones come together

5. It is possible to "taste" other body parts: if you put garlic in a sock, for example, food molecules will enter your bloodstream through the skin of your heel and when the blood runs through your tongue it will eventually get you out. making it taste slightly

6. Usually your foot and forearm are the same size

7. On average, each person blinks 1 time every 4 seconds. This gives a total of 20, 000 times a day, with a closed eye time of approximately 1.5 hours.

8. On average, fingernails grow 3.47 mm per month. The toes grow 2 times slower

9. We emit a lot of heat: in 1 hour it's equivalent to a 100 watt bulb

10. Babies are all born with blue or gray eyes. Melanocytes, cells responsible for melanin secretion, need light to activate, something that does not exist in the dark of the womb.

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