Ten amazing facts about your body

That the body is complicated, finely tuned and amazing is hardly any news. But did you know that you share 50 percent of your DNA with a banana and that you produce about three decades of string every day? Here are ten amazing (maybe unnecessary yet fun) body facts.

1st
The skin is the body's largest body. Thickest skin we have on hand and soles and the thinnest skin is on the eyelid.

2nd
A newborn baby has about 300 legs in her skeleton. There are 94 more than one grown-up person!

3rd
All people have misery residents in their eyelashes. They live off the talc our skin produces and is harmless. But anyway, urk!

4th
Every person has a unique tongue pressure. Just like the fingerprints.

5th
The human eye can distinguish about one million different colors and shades. However, in tests, people have discovered a kind of super-color vision that can distinguish hundreds of millions of shades.

6th
Human beings share about 50 percent of their DNA with bananas.
7th
We have ten times more bacteria in our bodies than cells. The number of bacteria we carry is estimated to be around one hundred trillion. However, they represent only about two kilograms of our body weight.

8th
A person produces about three decilitres of string per day. In one year, it equals 100 liters!

9th
Our brain accounts for about two percent of our body weight, although it consumes between 15 and 25 percent of the body's energy.

10th
Our taste buds consist of collections of small taste cells. The small taste cells live only for about ten days, then the body replaces them with new taste cells.

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