10 freaky Friday facts you didn’t know about your body
10 facts you didn't know about your body
10 facts you didn’t know about your body:
1. Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s.
2. A man named Charles Osborne hiccupped for a total of 68 years.
3. The average four-year-old child asks 450 questions a day.
4. About two thirds of people tilt their head to the right when kissing.
5. The average person forgets 90% of their dreams.
6. The total length of all the blood vessels in the human body is about 100,000km.
7. By the end of a person’s life, they can recall, on average, around 150 trillion pieces of information.
8. We lose 80% of our body heat from the head.
9. When you blush, your stomach also turns red.
10. A feeling of thirst occurs when water loss is equal to 1% of your body weight. The loss of more than 5% can cause fainting, and more than 10% causes death from dehydration.
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