Funny body facts

I found a little something on the Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry website and I’d like to share it with you. It’s actually a list of useless but funny body facts most people (that includes me) aren’t aware of. Visit the website for the complete list, but I’ll post some of my favorite here:

Women blink almost twice as much as men.

Fingernails grow faster than toenails and your middle fingernail is the quickest one to grow. It takes about 150 days to grow out a full length fingernail.

Your brain continues to send out electrical wave signals approximately 37 hours after death.

When you were born, you had 350 bones in your body, and after childhood 144 of these bones fused together.

Laughing and coughing put more pressure on the spine than walking or standing.

The eye muscle is the fastest reacting muscle of the whole body. It contracts in less than 1/100th of a second.

Your brain stops growing when you are about 15 years old.

There are some others you can read but these were my favorites!