The brain begins to suffer damage after about 5 minutes without oxygen.

Your brain can store the equivalent of millions of gigabytes of information.

Fact #2124 · Human Body

Your brain can store the equivalent of millions of gigabytes of information.

Fact #1944 · Human Body

Your brain edits out constant sensations like clothing touching your skin.

Fact #3048 · Human Body

The human body glows faintly in complete darkness.

Fact #1686 · Human Body

The liver can regenerate itself — as little as 25% of the liver can regrow into a full organ.

Fact #3276 · Human Body

Your body produces about a liter of mucus every day — most of it you swallow.

Fact #3630 · Human Body

There are more lifeforms living in your body than human cells.

Fact #2717 · Human Body

The human body contains enough carbon to make roughly 9,000 pencils.

Fact #3274 · Human Body