
Fun Facts about Humans 👪
Fun Facts about Humans 👪 50 Amazing Facts about the Human Body
We can’t swear to the accuracy of all these fun facts about humans but they are certainly widely believed – and fun, as advertised in the title! If you know better or have other funny facts about humans please add your comments and we’ll take a look.
- ADDucation’s facts about humans list was compiled by Robert Junker, last updated 15 Feb 2021.
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Fun Facts About Humans 👪 | Category |
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An adult has 700 named muscles, 206-214 bones, over 100 joints and at least 100 billion nerve cells. | Internal organs, stats |
Coughing accelerates air up to a speed of 480 km/h (298 mph). | Human trivia |
Women’s tears are half a degree warmer than men’s tears. | Human trivia, temperature |
The length of a man’s foot 🦶🏼is approximately 1/7 of his height. With women it’s more complicated 😉 | Human trivia |
43% of all Central Europeans have the blood group A, followed by 0 (39%), B (13%) and AB (5%). | Blood types |
About 80% of people breathe through only one nostril, but this alternates regularly. | Human trivia, breathing |
We lose between 40 and 100 hairs daily. | Human trivia, hair facts |
👩Women on the pill blink roughly one third more often than others. | Human trivia, contraception |
A person’s height is roughly the same as the length of their outstretched arms. | Human trivia, body stats |
An adult breathes in and out about 15 times a minute. Inhaled air contains 21% oxygen, and exhaled air 16% oxygen, 4% carbon dioxide and 1% noble gas. | Human trivia, stats |
Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s hearts (on average 70 compared to 78 beats per minute on account of the 10% size difference). | Human trivia, stats |
In the evening we shrink by up to 2 cm compared to when we wake up in the morning because our spinal discs become compressed during the daytime. | Human trivia |
Marilyn vos Savant, an American writer, had the highest IQ ever recorded. At the age of 10 she already achieved a value of 228. Other measurement methods recorded 186 and 218. | Human trivia |
Up to 100,000 bacteria 🦠live on a “brushed” tooth. An “unbrushed” one plays host to up to one billion. | Teeth trivia |
The width of the shoulders corresponds to a quarter of a person’s height. | Human trivia, body facts |
Elephants and whales have heavier brains than humans but taking into account the ratio between the weight of the brain and the body humans come out on top between 1:33 and 1:44 with chimpanzees 1:150, bees 1:175, ants 1:280, dogs 1:500, elephants 1:560, Cockroach 1:3300 and whales 1:15000. | Relative brain sizes |
The length of your foot 🦶🏼is roughly the same as the distance between the inside of your elbow and your wrist – try it! | Human trivia, body facts |
Our skull 💀consists of 22 different bones. One of them (the “intermaxillary” jawbone) was discovered by the writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe in 1784. | Human skeleton |
Humans host ten times more bacteria (🦠approximately 100 trillion) in their body than their own cells! | Human trivia |
Around 200 different types of cold viruses are known to us but the actual number is probably much higher. | Human illnesses |
For around three years of our life we are suffering from colds, coughs and sore throats. | Human illnesses |
Who’d have guessed the “G” in G-Spot is taken from the surname German gynecologist “Gräfenberg”. If you’re having trouble finding it, Gräfenberg is a town in Frankonia 🙂 It turns out the G Spot doesn’t exist so we can all stop looking. | Body part facts |
You will blink your eyes 👁️around 415 million times in your life – trying to blink less often or more slowly won’t extend your life! | Human trivia |
Between 90 and 95% of all human sensory perceptions are visual stimuli. | Human senses, vision |
In good light humans can distinguish between 1 million colors and recognize 10 million color areas and put names to around 150 colors. | Human senses, color vision |
Humans can, on average, differentiate sounds that are 5 Hz (¼ tone) different. A trained ear can perceive differences as little as 1 Hz. | Human senses, hearing |
Whispers can be heard up to 8m (26ft) way, talking up to 20m (66ft), screams to 200m (666 ft) with a record 17km (10.6 miles) in optimum conditions. | Human senses, hearing |
There are far more left-handed men than left-handed women. | Human trivia, handedness |
Coffee drinkers have sex more frequently than non-coffee drinkers. Whether the coffee is drunk before, during or after remains a mystery. | Sex, coffee |
Right-handers scratch themselves more often with the left hand and vice versa. | Human trivia, handedness |
Captain James Cook was the first man to walk on all the continents (except Antarctica). | Human travel |
The root of the penis is located at half a man’s height. | Body part facts |
The nail on the middle finger grows faster than that of the thumb. | Body part facts |
Phobiaphobia is a phobia about phobias. There are hundreds of recognized and named phobias. | Human illnesses, mental health |
When we are full, we don’t hear as well – now that is a fun fact about humans! | Human food trivia |
There are around 625 sweat glands on ¾ sq inch (5 cm²) of skin. | Body part facts |
Nobody can kiss their own elbow or put your elbow in your ear. | Human trivia |
According to Carl Linnaeus, man belongs to the animal kingdom, the domain Eucarya, the phylum Chordata, the sub-tribe of the vertebrates, the class of mammals, the order of primates, the family of hominids, the Homo genus and to the species sapiens. | Human stats |
Humans inhale approximately 700,000 of their own flakes of skin every day, so we’re cannibals, right? | Human trivia |
Our lungs have a surface about the size of a tennis court. | Human organs, stats |
Each day throughout the world humans engage in sexual intercourse about 100 million times – that’s collectively, not each, just in case you were wondering. | Sex |
👦🏽👧🏻Children learn a new word every 2 hours until they’re 10 years old, that’s nearly 40,000 words. | Human trivia, children, language |
Our small intestine is around six feet (2 m) long on average. | Body part facts |
The most common human disease in the world is tooth decay. | Human illnesses, teeth facts |
Smokers have 10 times more wrinkles than non-smokers. | Human health, smoking |
On average a person living to the age of 80 walks a distance equivalent to three times around the earth. | Human trivia, travel |
Most fast-food chains have red in their logo and on their equipment because red triggers hunger pangs in humans. | Human perception |
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. | Body parts, hair stats |
The length of your forearm (wrist to elbow) is roughly the same length as your feet. | Body parts sizes |
The 35 oldest living humans are currently all women 👵and most of them were born and lived in Japan or the USA (last fact checked April 2019). | Human longevity |
👵The oldest woman that ever lived is disputed. Nabi Tajima is a verified contender. She was born in Japan on 8 April 1900 and lived for 117 years and 260 days (verified deaths since 2008, last fact checked April 2019). | Human longevity |
The oldest living person is Kane Tanaka a 116 year old Japanese woman, born on 2 January 1903 (last fact checked April 2019). | Human longevity |
👴🏻The oldest man that ever lived is disputed. However Jiroemon Kimura was born in Japan and lived to be 116 years and 54 days (last fact checked April 2019). | Human longevity |
⚰️There are now no living human beings who were born in the 19th century. | Human longevity |
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