Interesting Facts about Human-Being
Interesting Facts about Human-Being
Here are some interesting facts about human being that we might not even know.
* Blinking helps to wash tears over our eyeballs. That keeps them clean and moist. Also, if something is about to hit our eye, we will blink automatically.
* Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression than men in the United States.
* The human brain has about 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) neurons.
* From all the oxygen that a human breathes, twenty percent goes to the brain.
* People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.
* Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.
* It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.
* A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder.
* In America, the most common mental illness is Anxiety Disorders.
* Your brain is 80% water.
* Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day.
* The shark cornea has been used in eye surgery, since its cornea is similar to a human cornea.
* The number one cause of blindness in adults in the United States is diabetes.
* The eye of a human can distinguish 500 shades of the gray.
* The cornea is the only living tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels.
* People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.
Taken from Rumeysa Cetiner
