10 Amazing Scientific “Facts on Human body and Life” interesting facts for Class 10 and 12 Part 8

Facts on Human Body and Life Part-8

71. We are the only animals that copulate face to face.

72. The average a person laughs is about 15 times a day.

73. Mumps is an infection that causes painful inflammation and swelling of the salivary glands. It is an infectious disease that may sometimes prove fatal to children. The disease is caused by a virus in the saliva of an infected person.

74. The skin is the largest organ of the body and weights twice as much as the brain.

75. The brain stops growing after the age of 15. It represents about 2 per cent of your total body weight. It is roughly 140 mm wide, 167 mm long and 93mm high.

76. The left side of your brain controls the right side of your body and the right side of the brain controls your left side.

77. The brain detects pain in other parts of the body but cannot feel pain itself.

78. Cold water is absorbed into the body much faster than warm water.

79. Even when at rest, your skin can lose up to half a litre of water into the atmosphere every day, and during hot weather , it will lose even more.

80. We lose the equivalent of a pint or more of water every day just breathing.