The muscles in your eyes focus at least 100,000 times a day. To put this in perspective, thats like exercising your leg muscles for 50 miles.

There is an ecosystem of bacteria in your belly button the size of a rainforest

You produce enough spit in one lifetime to fill two full swimming pools

Your nose has the ability to remember more than 50,000 different scents

Red blood cells make the entire journey around the body in about 20 seconds

If you were on a completely flat and unending surface, you could see a candle from roughly 30 miles away

Over 90 of our cells originate from fungi and bacteria

People have been known to lift cars and boulders during times of extreme stress while experiencing an adrenaline rush

Each adult body has at least 7 octillion or 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000 atoms

We can distinguish between up to 10 million different colors at any one time

The human body is one of the best long distance runners on the planet. In the past, people used to run after their prey until it finally died from exhaustion.

Our bodies actually glow in the dark. Our eyes are simply not designed to detect that weaker light

As babies, we have 60 more bones than adults

The brain releases the same neurotransmitters and hormones as amphetamines when in love

Bananas share 50 of our DNA

Our brains produce enough electricity to fully power a lightbulb

10 of our waking life is spent with our eyes closed from blinking

The masseter, or jaw muscle, is the strongest muscle in the human body

The worlds most powerful supercomputer, BlueGene, can manage only .002 of all the functions a human brain could if it were a computer itself

Every second, your body produces 2 million new cells

Human brains have the capacity to read 1,000 words a minute

It may be gross to think about, but we shed at least 40 pounds of skin cells in one lifetime