If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read

The skin on your elbow is called a Wenis.

The 52 bones in your feet make up one quarter of all the bones in your body. When they are out of alignment, so is the rest of your body.

Tilapia skin is close enough to our skin that it can be used to paper over burns and let them heal faster.

Also, our immune systems are similar enough to pigs' that they are the (non-primate) animal that transmit diseases the most easily to us, which is likely why many early religions banned pigs as dirty.

Your memories are not concrete. Every time you think about a memory it becomes volatile and can be changed. There was an experiment where people were told that they had committed a major crime earlier in their life. This was of course false, but after being told repeatedly for weeks the people became completely convinced that the crime really happened.

The small intestine is longer than the large intestine.

* extremely efficient legs, we can walk all day, but a horse or a wolf tires out much earlier.

* resistance to shock, losing a body-part isn't a completely lethal, as with other creatures.

* hyperactive scar tissue, we regenerate faster than other creatures.

* Mega-fauna, we are in the group mega-fauna, which means we are one of the largest creatures on the Earth.

Dunno if this counts exactly but coconut water can be used as a temporary replacement for blood plasma. Yaknow, like, for emergency surgery on a stylised desert island?

That females are born with ~2 million eggs already in their ovaries, although that's down from a peak of 6 to 7 million while in the womb. They lose eggs over time naturally, and by the time they hit puberty they're down to ~300,000.

Still debate on whether or not they create new eggs in their life-time or if what they're born with are all they'll ever have, they're still doing studies to try to figure this one out.

Human babies are so helpless when they’re first born because they’re not done developing yet. It has been hypothesized that when humans evolved to walk on two legs, one of the consequences was the narrowing of the birth canal, meaning that babies need to be born earlier or else their heads would be too large to pass through. In theory, a human gestational period would ideally be between 18-21 months!

A woman's breast milk adapts to her infant's needs based on its saliva. If the baby is sick, mom will produce more antibodies in her milk.

That muscles can exert a lot more force than they actually do. They aren't used to there full potential all the time because it would destroy the muscle.

When you get an adrenaline rush you are able to tap in to more of your muscles and become significantly stronger.

The most abundant metal in the human body is Calcium, not Iron as a lot of people think.

Lame because everyone probably knows this by now, but as a teenager I was blown away by the fact that SKIN IS THE LARGEST ORGAN!

The acid in your stomach could burn your skin! I always thought that was pretty interesting, and reminds me of the scene in Alien, where the alien blood burns everything.

The average human heart pumps about 7600 liters (2000 gallons) of blood every day.

Your heart does a lot of work. Take care of it.

During the average person's life, they will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools. Now I know where Mark Spitz got his name from.

Alot of taste is influenced by smell.

You are at your tallest each day as soon as you wake up in the morning.

When a baby is born, it’s teeth are right under its eyes.

It's funny but the nail on the middle finger grows faster than the rest. And the nail on the middle finger of the leading hand is generally a champion in terms of growth rate)

We still don't know why but the growth speed of the nail is somehow connected with the length of the finger, so that fingernails on long fingers grow faster than all, and the slowest on short ones.