The human body is fascinating and the below facts are proof of that.

The human body is a complex machine that has millions of internal processes happening every second, all of them trying to keep us alive and well.

Even though your high school biology class would have taught you everything to know about the human body, we bet you didn’t know the below interesting facts.

1. As an infant, you have 300 bones in your body. However, as you grow and become an adult, some of your bones fuse together and you have only 206 bones left.
2. Your left and right lungs aren’t the same. The left lung has two lobes, while the lung on the right side has three lobes. Additionally, the left lung is also slightly smaller than the right lung to make a place for the heart.
3. You know that our fingerprints are unique. But even the tongue has a print that is unique to us. Now, we know how we want to unlock our phone the next time.
4. An eyelash lives for around 150 days before it falls off.
5. There are almost ten thousand taste buds in your tongue. Also, females have more taste buds than men.
6. While teeth are part of the skeletal system, they are not counted as bones.
7. Every second, the body produces almost 25 million new cells.
8. The brain accounts for 2% of our body mass but utilizes 20% of the blood and oxygen supply.
9. The body sheds almost 600,000 particles of skin every hour. And most of these cells collect as dust in your home.
10. If an adult’s blood vessels are laid out end to end, they could circle the Earth’s equator four times.
11. An average-sized human would eat around 33 tons of food in their life. This is almost equal to the weight of six elephants.
12. The only part of the body with no blood supply is the cornea. It, instead, gets its oxygen directly from the air.
13. Many scientists have estimated that the nose can recognize almost one trillion different scents.
14. The heart beats 10,000 times every day and more than a billion times if you live over 30 years of age.
15. Your liver is the only organ capable of regenerating itself. If someone donated his or her liver, the organ would grow back to the original size in a few weeks.

How many of these facts did you know?