20 incredibly interesting facts about the human body

Even with modern medical advances, the human body still holds many mysteries. Some interesting information about the human body has been revealed and many of them surprise us.

Health24 has compiled 20 interesting facts about the human body including:

1. For every 1,000 babies born, 1 baby is born with 1 tooth already present.

2. More germs are spread from person to person through a handshake than through a kiss.

3. A person will die from lack of sleep before he will die from starvation.

4. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 chromosomes, while shrimp have up to 200 chromosomes.

5. The human body has countless blood vessels, their total length can be up to 96,000 km.

6. If the inner lining of the stomach is lost, the stomach will digest itself.

7. It takes 4 to 6 months for a human fingernail to fully grow.

8. Each person will lose 22 kg of skin during their lifetime.

9. The heart beats an average of 100,000 times a day.

10. Teenage boys are 50% more likely to get acne than girls.

11. Humans share 98.4% of their DNA with chimpanzees and 70% of their DNA with slugs.

12. At just 12 weeks, a fetus can squint and frown.

13. If we remove minerals from bones by soaking them overnight in a 6% hydrochloric acid solution, the bones will become so soft that they can be tied into a knot.

14. At birth, the human body has 300 bones, but when we grow up, we only have 206. Most of them do not disappear but fuse together.

15. A woman's egg cell is the largest cell in the human body. It is 175,000 times heavier than a sperm cell.

16. The average person has up to 100,000 hairs.

17. Like fingerprints, each person has a unique tongue print.

18. The kidneys filter the body's blood up to 300 times a day.

19. A person flexes and extends their fingers 25 million times in a lifetime.

20. The human body contains up to 30,000 billion red blood cells.

According to TNO