Top 10 interesting facts about a person

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10 interesting facts about a person and his body

  1. In one hour, a person loses about 600,000 old skin cells.

  2. A person sneezes at a speed of up to 160 km/h.

  3. There are about 72 km of nerves in the human body.

  4. The nose is able to recognize and remember 50,000 different smells.

  5. Gastric juice is able to dissolve zinc.

  6. Human bones are 4 times stronger than concrete.

  7. The heart is about the size of a fist.

  8. The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that is attached only on one side.

  9. If it were possible to apply the force of all muscles at once to lift gravity, then they would be able to lift a load weighing 25 tons.

  10. The average man’s skin weighs 5 kg, and the average woman’s skin weighs 3 kg.

Syachinova Kseniya Ivanovna
Syachinova Kseniya Ivanovna
Student of RUDN

Hello everyone! My name is Ksenia and I am 20 years old. She has lived all her life in the small town of Lebedyan. But now I have moved to Moscow and am a student of RUDN. My specialty is ‘Mathematics and Mechanics’. This direction turned out to be interesting for me, as I have always loved mathematics for its logic.