Facts about Human body

Facts about human body

ABOUT 1,000 AMAZING HUMAN BODY FACTS

Stun family and friends with mind-boggling facts about the human body!

Packed with amazing facts and visual representations, this extraordinary book answers questions about the human body. Find out just what makes our bodies so incredible with enough blood and guts, intestines, and eyeballs to satisfy the most curious kids.

30 Fun Facts About The Human Body

1. You tend to blink your eyes about 20 times a minute, which equals ten million times a year.

2. While your height stops growing after one hits puberty, your ears and nose are constantly lengthening, and gravity is to blame for this phenomenon.

3. Our cornea, the transparent front part of the eyes, doesn’t get any blood supply and receives oxygen directly from the air!

4. Did you know? A weird fact about the human body is that it consists of so much fat that it can make up to seven bars of soap.

5. Once the oxygen supply is cut off, a human brain can survive up to three to six minutes.

6. Humans develop fingertips from the time they were embryos, only three months after they are conceived. This means that just after the first trimester, the baby has fully developed fingertips.

7. When a human blushes, they feel it in the lining of the stomach too as it also turns red.

8. A weird fact about height is that when in space, astronauts can grow almost up to two inches.

9.There are tumors known as teratomas, which can grow their own teeth and hair.

10. Your heart can sync to the rhythm when you listen to music.

11. Throughout their lifespan, humans go from having 300 bones to 206 bones.

12. A human heart can beat outside the body as well.

13. All humans are born with a diving reflex, which can shut bodily functions. This gets activated when one drowns or is submerged in the water.

14. Humans can glow in the dark, however, they are too weak for the human eye to detect.

15. The human body consists of organs in a singular count and pairs. However, the organs that are present in pairs, you only need one to survive.

16. When your body experiences extreme starvation, there are chances that your brain will start to eat itself.

17. Your small intestine is taller than you and measures about 23 feet.

18. One-fourth of the bones in a human body are in the feet.

19. When you calculate all the blood vessels in the human body, there are more than 100,00 miles of blood vessels present.

20. If you were to check your height, you are taller in the morning compared to night.

21. Did you know? You will not be able to breathe and swallow at the same time.

22. Your right kidney is placed slightly lower than your left one.

23. If you have heard about the term ‘pregnancy brain,’ know that it is completely real and not something that’s made up where a woman’s brain slightly shrinks.

24. Ever wondered what the size of the brain is? If you smoothened out all the wrinkles, your brain would look flat like a pillowcase.

25. The acid that’s generated in your stomach aka the stomach acid is so strong that it can even dissolve metal. So, it can even burn your skin!

26.Just like fingerprints, humans also possess a unique tongue print.

27. Another weird fact about the human body is that we humans shed about 600,000 skin particles every hour.

28. Here is another one of the fun facts about humans. The human body is made of a trillion cells. And if there is a mutation in any of the cells, it can uncontrollably come together to form cancer. And when each cell is divided so many times with each one having almost 30,000 genes, there are chances that you might have fought cancer at one point.

29. Did you know? Babies only blink once or twice in a minute while an adult blinks at least 10 times in the same time.

30. In a lifetime, a human produces 25,000 quarts of saliva, which is enough to fill almost two swimming pools.

5 Fun Facts About The Respiratory System

31. One of the weird facts about the human body is that our lungs are the only organs that float on the water. This is because our lungs contain 300 million balloon-like structures known as alveoli.

32. Even when we are in optimal health, our lungs are never sterile or germ-free.

33. A wonderful yet weird fact about the human body is that our nose is almost a superhero. It is a filter, heater, and also a humidifier. So, the nose is lined with small bone-like shelves known as turbinates, which contain blood vessels that can heat the air and goblet cells that help humidify the air. Finally, the air you breathe is filtered before it goes to the lungs.

34. Coughing and sneezing is the natural mechanism of your body to keep away any foreign substances.

35. Children who don’t breathe from their nose but their mouth are at risk of developing a lisp when they talk.

Filled with astounding facts and popping photography, this science book for kids 9 years and older makes the science of the human body exciting and fun. Inside you’ll find:

• 1,000 jaw-dropping, mind-blowing facts.

• Stunning images that help explain facts about the body in a way that kids can understand.

• Fast fact science boxes illustrated with engaging info graphics to cover essential info on how the body works.

• Additional photo stories on each spread, revealing something a bit more quirky and fun.

• Amazing pictures magnified many times show you parts of the body as you’ve never seen them before.

• Simple, easy-to-understand secondary artwork that makes the main images on each spread the stars of the show.

• Fun, accessible text written to excite and entertain the target age group and adults too!

Did you know your DNA could stretch to the sun and back not once but 16 times, or that you shed and regrow a whole new layer of skin every 39 days? It Can’t Be True! Human Body! is full of bite-size, fascinating bits of information about the incredible abilities of human bodies. Children will be captivated by this book on human body facts, and its science “question and answer” format. Discover the surprising answers to questions like how big is your stomach, or how big are your lungs?

Packed with vibrant computer-generated images, this science book for children explains an impressive number of human body facts with breathtaking visual comparisons that reveal just how amazing your body is. Topics covered include what the body is made of, circulation and respiratory systems, skeletal and muscle systems, and so much more!

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DK’s It Can’t Be True! series covers fascinating topics in an easy-to-read, question and answer format to keep children interested and engaged. These books are wonderful gifts for kids who love science, and will satisfy their most pressing questions.