Wacky Wednesday: 10 Amazing Human Body Facts!

As is Wednesday tradition, BBIMI is giving you a glimpse at 10 incredible and crazy human body facts you probably did not know before you read this blog post. The human body is an incredible thing. Some of these facts may be hard to believe, but they are happening, inside of you, right now. And we would be crazy or wacky ourselves not to shed some light on this subject. There’s just two more days until the weekend, so enjoy this Humpday treat courtesy of BB Insurance Marketing. Check them out!

– If humans were capable of hearing frequencies lower than 20 Hz, we would hear our muscles moving.

– Your nose and ears continue growing throughout your entire life.

– It takes the body around 12 hours to completely digest eaten food.

– As well as having unique fingerprints, humans also have unique tongue prints.

– Infants blink only once or twice a minute while adults average around 10.

– The left side of your body is controlled by the right side of your brain while the right side of your body is controlled by the left side of your brain.

– If the human brain were a computer, it could perform 38 thousand-trillion operations per second. The world’s most powerful supercomputer, BlueGene, can manage only .002% of that.

– Crying alleviates stress and allows humans to decrease feelings of anger and sadness. It physically does help to let it out.

– Nerve impulses travel to and from the brain at speeds of up to 250 miles per hour, faster than a Formula 1 racecar.

– A full head of human hair is strong enough to support 12 tons.

(via Science Kids & Distractify)