11 Astonishing Facts About Human Body

The human body is an exceptionally complex and sophisticated system and it still confounds investigators often despite millions of years of medical industry. As a result, it shouldn't be a wonder that even body parts we deal in routine life have surprising truths and explanations behind them.

1. The crumbling sound made by knuckles, wrist, backs, and other joints when they’re cracked is the sound of foams bursting in the joints’ fluid.

2. Your stomach acid is even robust enough to dissolve

3. Your nose can memorize 50,000 different fragrances.

4. Sweat doesn’t smell bad. A foul “body odour” is due to when the skin bacteria feed on sweat and waste products they produce smell really bad.

5. You need to drink a quart of water each day for five months to match with the amount of blood pumped by your heart in an hour.

6. The human eye is so responsive that if the Globe was uniform, you could spot a candle wavering at night from up to 30 miles away.

7. Your salivary glands can generate two to five cups of saliva a day. Six cups of saliva would nearly fill a big, two-litre soda bottle.

8. You are about 1 cm smaller at night because the cartilage between your bones is compacted during the day.

9. The human body gets affected by traumatic events a lot. When your mind is distracting, it will definitely affect your physical health.

10. An infant (human) has over 60 more bones than an adult.

11. The right side of your body is governed by the left side of your brain while the left side of your body is governed by the right side of your brain.