Stupid Facts: The Human Body

• A person's sense of smell is the first to go.
  
  
• A sneeze leaves your mouth at over 600 mph.
  
  
• The flu was first described by Hippocrates in 412 BC
  
  
• The human body contains about 10 gallons for water making up 60% of body weight.
  
  
• Your body creates as much as two quarts of saliva daily.
  
  
• You're more likely to catch a cold from a person by shaking their hand than from their sneezes.
  
  
• The human brain weighs about 3 pounds, but uses 20% of one's blood and oxygen.
  
  
• Plaque begins reforming 6 hours after brushing your teeth.
  (see Human Teeth)
  
  
• If your body temperature was 86 degrees, you could live to be 200.
  
  
• Cold showers actually increase sexual arousal.
  
  
• A Swiss scientist named A. E. Fick invented contact lenses in 1887.
  
  
• There is enough phosphorous inside the human body to make about 250 match heads.
  
  
• Doctors in ancient China were paid when patients were healthy, not sick.
  
  
• The human head weighs eight pounds.
  
  
• The human hand has 27 bones.
  
  
• The human foot has 26 bones.
  
  
• The human body has over 200 bones.