A fetus can hiccup — the diaphragm muscle practice-contracts long before birth.

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

Fact #3048 · Human Body

Your brain creates thought.

Fact #2427 · Human Body

There are people alive today whose hearts have stopped for hours and were restarted.

Fact #2226 · Human Body

The femur (thigh bone) is stronger than concrete.

Fact #3286 · Human Body

The human body contains about 206 bones.

Fact #267 · Human Body

The human brain uses about 20% of your body's total energy.

Fact #2340 · Human Body

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

Fact #2182 · Human Body

Every hour, humans shed about 600,000 skin cells.

Fact #3281 · Human Body