10 Amazing Facts About The Human Body You May Not Be Aware Of

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Within half an hour the human body is capable of producing enough heat to boil a gallon of water.

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Despite not being the fastest or strongest animals, humans are by far the best long-distance runners on the planet. Actually, what most people ignore is that our progenitors thousands of years ago used to run after their prey until the latter died of exhaustion.

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An average adult human is made up of about seven octillion atoms. Just to make a comparison, there are about 300 billion stars in our galaxy.

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When you blush, the lining of your stomach blushes too.

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It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown.

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Your skeleton keeps renewing itself every ten years, which means that every decade you get a new skeleton.

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In case you ever wondered what the strongest muscle in the body is, it is the tongue, while the hardest bone in the body is the jawbone.

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Contrary to popular belief sweat doesn’t smell bad. Body odor is caused when the skin’s bacteria feed on sweat. So, bacteria’s waste products cause this horrible odor.

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Inside your belly button “live” thousands of bacteria that could literally form an ecosystem the size of an entire rain forest.

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According to most scientists, humans are the only animals on earth who produce emotional tears.

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