Incredible Facts
Humans are the most unpredictable and amazing creatures on our planet. We are distinguished not only by intellectual abilities.
Our body is arranged intricately, but at the same time everything in it is thought out. Our brain is more powerful and more complex than any computer program.
However, despite all the knowledge, we still cannot answer some questions, such as why we sleep.
Here are 22 interesting facts about people and humanity that are hard to believe.
1. Scientists have determined that all the chemicals in the human body can be valued at about $160.
2. If we could hear a frequency below 20 Hz, we would hear the movements of your muscles.
3. Theoretically, people could live on butter and potatoes.
4. When our body does not receive adequate nutrition, testosterone levels drop while estrogen levels remain unchanged. This can lead to gynecomastia - breast enlargement in men.
5. Due to the fact that fertility falls with increasing wealth, population The earth most likely will not rise as much as it did in the last century. According to some estimates, it stop at about 10 billion.
6. In the vacuum of space, you won't explode or freeze to death, but rather you will die of suffocation.
7. Every person unique tongue pattern like fingerprints.
8. Some historians believe that people developed agriculture for the production of alcohol.
9. The oligosaccharides in breast milk are not for the baby, but for intestinal bacteria.
10. Humans are the best long-distance runners on our planet. In the past, they hunted for prey, bringing it to exhaustion.
11. Scientists have noticed that people tend to create spontaneous order when they are left to fend for themselves (ranging from a large scale society to a small roundabout).
12. Once lived in Kentucky blue skinned family. The Fugate family acquired blue skin due to incest and a rare genetic disorder called methemoglobinemia.
13. Only Europeans have lactose intolerance(tolerance of milk in adulthood). Most other people are lactose intolerant to some degree.
14. Yawning is contagious not only in humans, but also in dogs.
15. You have many more than 5 senses (sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste). For example, sense of balance and thermoception- just a few of the many feelings that are not included in the main five.
16. Ear wax has antimicrobial properties, preventing the accumulation of fungus and bacteria in the ears.
17. Scientists Couldn't Find Enough Evidence Links of GMOs (Genetically Modified Foods) to Health Problems in Humans.
2. stomach acid so strong that every 3-4 days we have a completely new gastric mucosa.
3. Human nose can recognize about 1 billion scents.
4. We sneeze at speed 160 km per hour.
5. In our body 96,560 km of blood vessels. This is enough to circle the Earth's equator 2.5 times.
6. Every day our heart creates enough energy to drive a truck. 32 km. In a lifetime, the heart generates so much energy that a truck could to the moon and back.
7. On average, a person sheds so much skin in a lifetime that by the age of 70 it can be dazzled person weighing 47 kg.
8. If you look up at a clear night sky and see Andromeda, your eyes are so sensitive that they can pick up a tiny, fuzzy spot of light that, being our nearest neighboring galaxy, is in the distance. 2.5 million light years from U.S.
9. A person can snore at 80 decibels. It's like sleeping next to a pneumatic drill breaking concrete. Noise levels exceeding 85 decibels are considered dangerous to the human ear.
10. A person produces enough saliva in a lifetime to fill two swimming pools.
11. You are made up of 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms.
13. Neurons send information to your brain at a faster rate. 241 km per hour.
14. In addition to the five senses, we have an additional sense called proprioception, which combines your brain's knowledge of what muscles are doing with a sense of the size and shape of your body so you can know where your body parts are in relation to each other. Thus, you can unmistakably touch your nose even with your eyes closed.
15. Your heartbeat fluctuates and imitates that music you are listening to.
16. Your waking brain generates enough electricity to light a light bulb.
17. Your bones are stronger than steel, since a bar of steel of the same size would weigh 4-5 times more. For comparison, 16 cubic centimeters of bone can theoretically support a load of 8,626 kg, which is equivalent to about five trucks. Whether the bones can actually withstand such a load depends largely on how quickly the force is transferred.
18. Despite being stronger than steel, 31 percent of bones are made up of water.
19. If a person's eye were a camera, he would have 576 megapixels. In comparison, an 80-megapixel high-resolution camera would cost around $34,000.
20. Experts determined that the human eye can distinguish 10 million different colors.
21. If we do not unwind DNA in all the cells of our body, then it will stretch for 16 billion km. This is the distance to Pluto and back.
22. Over a lifetime, long-term memory can hold 1 quadrillion(million to the fourth power) individual pieces of information.
23. The human brain, especially the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for social skills and understanding of other people, develops until middle age (about 40 years).
24. During the average life span, the heart pumps about 178 million liters of blood. It's enough to fill 200 tank wagons.
25. Our body produces 180 million red blood cells in an hour.
26. A normal pregnancy lasts an average of 9 months, and the longest pregnancy was 375 days or 12.5 months.
27. During pregnancy, if the mother suffers from organ damage, the baby in the womb sends stem cells to restore it.
28. To take one step is activated 200 muscles.
29. Researchers have found 1458 new types of bacteria in the navel.
30. Most astronauts in space get taller by 5 cm.
31. In one cage contains 6 billion steps of DNA.
32. For every fertilized egg, there are 200 to 500 million sperm competing to transfer their DNA.
33. We spend one third of our lives sleeping.
34. Research has shown that we can switch our sleep-wake cycle - the circadian rhythm, shining on the back of the knee.
35. Man Can Survive no food for 2 months.
36. taste buds is not only on the tongue, but also in the stomach, intestines, pancreas, lungs, anus, testicles and brains.
37. In our brain, new connections are formed between neurons every time we form a memory.
38. It has been scientifically proven that even a small power changes how the brain works, usually reducing the degree of empathy.
39. You can live 5-10 minutes without oxygen before brain cells start to die.
40. Our brain is 60 percent made up of fat.
41. The human brain will start eat yourself in a last attempt to avoid starvation.
42. Phobias These are probably memories that are passed down genetically from our ancestors.
43. A self-programmed reaction to a certain stimulus is called an emotion.
44. Long-term memories create permanent and lasting physical changes in the brain.
45. If you will adjust your expression to express some emotion, then you will begin to feel those emotions.
46. The human eye can see only a small part of the field of view at a particular moment in time, so it commits 2-3 saccades(eye hops) per second to complete one complete picture.
47. When you remember, you do not give out the original memory, but creative imagination, in which there will be not only holes, but also completely new details.
48. We forget information to protect ourselves from information overload and emotional hangovers, which helps us think faster and assimilate new information.
49. Our brain is able to learn new tasks, such as, for example, new music piece during REM sleep. REM sleep also improves performance on procedural memory tasks, or knowing “how to do things.”
50. Society is characterized by “ canonical perspective' which means that we see certain things in the same way. For example, when researchers asked people from all over the world to draw a coffee cup, almost all people drew it from a position slightly above and slightly shifted to the right or left, but almost no one drew the cup directly from above.
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Absolute memory - instant memorization of any amount of information and long-term storage of it in memory.
Memory Absorption - Reading someone else's memory by touch.
Agnosticism - with the help of voice vibrations, it is possible to control people and other creatures, subjugating their minds. Few people are immune to this ability, so although it does not give much value, but here's how much you can do with it ...
Analyticism is the ability to quickly analyze (think through) situations of various kinds, accelerate in critical situations. Everything is explained very simply: adrenaline entering the bloodstream stimulates a gene that begins to accelerate all body functions. After "bursts of speed" a person is very exhausted. The same thing happens with a very long flow of adrenaline into the blood.
Annihilation is the destruction of something, the disintegration of an object into molecules.
Anthropomorphism is the transfer of mental properties inherent in a person to natural phenomena (for example, he lost his temper - and a downpour, a hurricane, etc. began on the street). The second stage of manifestation of this ability is the partial control of the weather (calling rain, "dispersal" of clouds, etc.). Do not confuse with weather control.
Apiterism is the ability to restore other living beings other than oneself. This, one might say, is the antipode of regeneration.
A priori is a phenomenal ability to memorize any audible, visible and tactile information, as well as reproduce it again. A person with this ability often experiences "phase shifts" - too much stuff in their head. The brain and neuronal system of the gray matter is designed in such a way that it is able to memorize and store certain information for the time being, without displaying it until the right time. If you don't handle this ability properly, it will be very difficult... not to go crazy.
Astral projection - the creation of the so-called astral double (an intangible translucent substance, an exact copy of the creator, a kind of "soul from the body")
Aura of invisibility - by reflecting rays, becomes invisible.
Autogenism is mind control. We can say that autogenism is the sister of telepathy. Here already and no immunity will not help.
Aeration is air management. Aeration is not weather control. A person with this ability controls the elements itself, can cause a small tornado or a huge tornado indoors. At the second stage of this ability, it is possible to turn into an air mass (as smart people say, at the molecular level). The most interesting thing is that upon reaching the highest level of skill with this ability, you can "pump out" the air from sealed rooms without harm to yourself.
Alter ego - split personality; the fight between the two halves is usually good & evil. Usually one half does not remember what the other is doing.
Atmokinesis - control of the weather, that is, all possible atmospheric phenomena, including changes in humidity and temperature.
Audiokinesis - generation and control of sound waves.
Aerokinesis - mental control exclusively over air currents, without any changes in humidity and
controlled air temperature.
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Timelessness is the stop of time. That is, a person is able to stop time for a few seconds in real time, or increase his temporal speed (that is, the ability to partially jump into the near future).
Bionavigation is the ability to choose the direction of movement using the senses and instincts.
Bionics - giving an inanimate body the properties of a living organism, simulation
Immortality is a very rare ability, found only in a few gifted ones, and what this ability means is not worth saying.
Biovampirism is the "feeding" of human emotions and memories at a distance or by touch.
Biopolarism is the management of biofields, their change and the creation of explosive waves with the help of one's biofield.
Bioelectric field - a field that destroys or temporarily disables all electrical devices in range.
Blocking other people's abilities - the ability to temporarily deprive the opponent's abilities.
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Vampirism is feeding on human forces.
Explosion - the acceleration of molecules, which leads to the explosion of an object.
Aura Vision - the ability to see an aura or parts of it (for example, the glow of death)
Seeing in the dark is an ability that needs no special comment.
Influence on the field of the earth - thus it becomes possible to create earthquakes, typhoons, tsunamis, etc.
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Bioaura Generation - The ability to create an aura of various sizes around oneself for protection and strength.
The generation of a magnetic field inside the body is the ability due to which one can become ephemeral, which makes it possible to pass through solid objects, walk through the air, disable electronics by passing through it.
Seismic Energy Generation - Allows you to generate seismic energy in the body, and cause terrible earthquakes with its help.
Hydrokinesis is the ability to manipulate water.
Hypnosis is the ability to put an opponent into some kind of trance, to subjugate people to one's own will.
Graviokinesis is the ability to manipulate gravity.
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Breathing underwater - the ability to breathe underwater or in any other environment where there is no air (the same vacuum).
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A living computer is the ability to control and connect to technology.
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Delayed aging - in the body of the owner of this ability, all aging processes are slowed down.
Protective field - the ability to create a protective field around yourself from telepathic, psionic, physical and other types of attacks.
Sound waves - the ability to use your own voice to create powerful sound waves. The ability to use ultrasonic waves to put people in a trance or make them lose consciousness.
Freezing - stopping the movement (freezing) of objects / people. Over time, it develops into a stop of time.
Slowing down the metabolism of one's own or other beings through touch or the power of thought.
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Healing effect of blood - the ability to heal anyone with whom blood comes into contact
Emission of radiation - the ability to accumulate and emit radiation. It does not affect the body of this person in any way.
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Cyberpathy is the ability to think like a computer, to get the necessary information from your memory as quickly as possible, to perform several tasks at the same time and to work with computers as efficiently as possible.
Mind control is temporary mind control.
Energy control - the ability to pump electricity from sockets, high voltage lines and so on, turning it into your own bioenergy.
Wings - can be angelic or dragonfly-like. Here, of course, the ability to fly.
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Levitation is the ability to overcome gravity.
Healing - the ability to heal others with the help of hands, this ability does not apply to oneself.
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Magnetism is the ability to create magnetic fields of any form (both natural and artificial) and control them with only a small degree of concentration.
Mental control - allows you to manipulate the human mind.
Metamorphism - the ability to take on the appearance of animals (wolves for example).
The materialization of “thought forms” is a rare psychophysical phenomenon, the ability to materialize thoughts.
Medium - such people can communicate with the consciousness of the dead or people who are in a coma or in a deep sleep.
A mental block is a block from reading thoughts and influencing consciousness.
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Invisibility - a chameleon - the human body reflects light, which makes it invisible. The ability to accept the color of the background on which the person finds himself (like a chameleon).
Invulnerability is an ability that also does not need comments.
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Heightened senses - all 5 senses are maximally sharpened - super hearing, vision, smell, etc.
Animate Drawings - The ability to bring your own drawings to life.
Stopping time - slowing down or stopping molecules in a person, animal or the whole world.
Communication with animals - the ability to communicate with any animal or insect.
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Pyrogeneration is one of the methods of regeneration. Healing wounds with fire.
Pyrokinesis is fire control.
Pyropsionesis is the ability to change the strength of fire, its direction, and also to give the flame any shape (animals, objects, human outlines).
Pyrophakelization - the ability to turn into a living torch. It can set fire, but only what it touches.
Absorption of power - the ability, when touched, to absorb someone else's power, knowledge, memory.
Absorption of energy from the environment - the ability to absorb energy such as sunlight, electricity and store it in the cells of one's own body.
Cosmic Energy Absorption - Allows you to absorb the energy of the cosmos and generate it in an optimal way for yourself.
Polarism - control of any fields, intangible and psionic (also biofields, electric and the creation of force fields - protective / attacking).
Psionic influence is an ability that can cause in a person, for example, anger, which can lead to a fight. This ability manifests itself unconsciously when a person is in danger.
Psionic Biokinesis - The ability to emit energy that can cause fainting or destroy material at the subatomic level so that it explodes.
Psychometric abilities - usually reading information about an object or person - at a distance or by touch.
Moving the astral projection of objects - moving objects by charging them with kinetic energy.
Proskopia is a kind of clairvoyance, representing the perception of information about future events.
Prophetic dreams - the ability to see dreams that show certain events in the future.
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Radar is the ability to detect and locate objects.
Regeneration is a healing factor that is able to produce any antidote for the body, heal any wounds within a few minutes.
X-ray view - does not need special comments.
Retroscoping is a type of clairvoyance that represents the perception of information about past events. It also includes the diagnosis of illnesses and causes of death of previously living people from their photographs, artistic portraits and, in some cases, from sculptural images.
Drawing the future is the ability to draw the future. Starting from schematic sketches, ending with pictures of what is happening in the future.
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Creation of illusions - Includes a mental impact on the subconscious of a person, changing the structure of his thoughts in order to make the enemy believe in what is happening before his eyes and / or in his body.
Perhaps with a single eye contact.
Light - the ability to produce light that can blind, hurt, or vice versa heal.
Superhuman strength, speed, endurance, dexterity - needs no explanation. Choose from one of.
Memory Wipe is a rare ability that can erase the memory of any event to any number of people. As a rule, this is the ability of especially strong telepaths.
Vacuum Creation - The ability to create a vacuum in the form of a sphere, everything in it becomes invulnerable.
The center of the vacuum is the man himself.
Sonar - the brain generates waves that propagate around a person, which ricochet off the physical body and again transmit information to the brain. Thus, you can navigate the terrain, know what is on which side (if you, for example, have lost your sight).
Suggestion (mental suggestion) - in relation to a person, it is a suggestion to the object of any commands that control the behavior of the object, as well as thoughts, emotions and pseudo-sensory (hallucination) perceptions, carried out by mental effort. This impact can be implemented in relation to several objects at the same time.
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Telekinesis is the ability to move objects with the power of the mind.
Telepathy is the ability to read thoughts, or vice versa, to put the necessary thoughts into the consciousness of another person.
Teleportation is the ability to instantly (or very quickly) move over long distances.
Technomancy is the ability to control technology by touching it.
Technopathy is the control of technology at a distance, but it must be within sight.
Transmigration is the transfer of consciousness from one body to another.
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Ice Control - the ability to control ice and cold, the ability to create ice figures (for example, columns with which you can climb; ice slides), lowering the temperature.
Shadow control - the ability to "disappear" into the shadows, control their movement and much more.
Weather control - control over natural phenomena such as rain, snow, hail, wind, lightning. This does not include elemental control!
Fluid control is the ability to tame all the fluids around us.
Control of the space-time continuum - the ability to move in space and time, stop time, turn back time or speed it up.
Dream control is the ability to enter the dreams of others. Add or change the information that another person sees in a dream.
Energy Manipulation - a powerful ability, involves throwing energy balls, creating protective
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Photokinesis is the control of light, the ability to create very bright light that can blind or, on the contrary, heal.
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Chronokinesis - time travel
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Channeling - spontaneous extrasensory perception of any information of significant value (for example, any knowledge that was not previously known to this person and could not be obtained by him as a result of his mental activity).
Sensitivity is the ability to recognize people with unusual abilities.
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The sixth sense is heightened emotionality and sensitivity, intuition, a premonition of something that should happen to the person himself or other people.
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Electrogenesis is the generation of high discharges and their control.
Electrokinesis - control of electrical impulses, the ability to throw lightning with your fingertips, erasing and recording information on magnetic media and other directed streams of charged particles.
Electric impulses - the ability to create an electric charge around oneself, the probability of hitting an object that is in the zone of this electric field is 20%.
Empathy is the ability to feel other people's emotions, feelings, fears and the ability to influence them by changing your own mood.
Energy exchanger - the ability to take and give energy (any: vital, light and electrical).
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Clairvoyance is the ability to predict events that will happen in the future.
Have you ever heard of people with superpowers? Who do you think they are? Favorites? The lucky ones who have fallen to receive the grace of God? Or are they just scammers? The possibilities of man are great.
Some can hold a horse on their shoulders, someone can instantly multiply several multi-digit numbers in their minds ... But in each individual case, skepticism is necessary.
Is what they're showing really unique, or is it just a gimmick? Sometimes even a trick can be so complex that it is unique in itself.
Anna Chapman and her assistants will help us figure out whether this is deception or magic.
Just interesting and entertaining, but completely useless facts about a person, his life and body.
This material is for entertainment purposes only and does not claim to be a scientific article.
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The study of man has always attracted researchers of all times and peoples. Diseases, origin, psyche, motivation, etc. - all this is aimed at getting to know a person and his stay on earth more. Let's take a closer look at the knowledge that is known today.
We bring to your attention the most interesting facts about a person:
Man continues to be the most unusual, interesting and mysterious creature on Earth. Although science has yet to reveal people in the totality of their socio-psychological qualities and physiological characteristics, nevertheless, some amazing facts that can amaze the imagination have already been established by researchers.
The most amazing facts about a person primarily relate to the structure of his unique organism. This category includes the following proven and confirmed statements:
The macromolecule of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which is responsible for the transmission of hereditary information, contains about 80,000 genes.
Man is the only earthly representative who can draw straight lines.
For just one smile, people use as many as 17 facial muscles.
Leukocytes remain viable for 2-4 days, erythrocytes - 3-4 months.
In size, the heart, which in an adult reaches a weight of about 250 g, can be comparable to the size of a fist.
The body is nourished by only 4 minerals: aragonite, apatite, cristobalite and calcite.
Over a lifetime, a person bends and unbends each finger about 25,000,000 times.
The brain of the “crown of nature” produces as many electrical impulses per day as all phones on the planet do not produce in total. It is most active not during the day, but at night, during sleep.
Blood vessels can be over 95,000 km long! Only 1,120,000 mosquitoes that arrived at the same time can suck the blood out of them.
The largest organ in size, the small intestine, is 4 times longer than the height of an average person.
Strong light may temporarily blind you. This phenomenon is called "snowy ophthalmia (blindness)".
If the face turns red, the stomach also reddens.
The skin weighs about 3 kg, and is also the largest organ in terms of area. For life, it is updated 1000 or more times.
More than 100,000 chemical interactions occur in the brain per second.
If all the bacteria that exist in the body could be placed on a scale, the arrow of the device for determining the mass would stop at 2 kg! 40,000 microorganisms live in human mouths all the time.
The area of the alveoli (lung vesicles) is approximately equal to the area of a tennis court or even exceeds it.
In a second, the circulatory system overtakes 25000000000 cells throughout the body.
The most amazing human organ can be called the brain, in which there are about 14000000000 cells throughout its activity. Gradually they die off - by the age of 25 there are already 100,000 fewer of them. One page of read information “kills” another 70 brain cells. After 40 years, destructive regressive processes begin to accelerate. Turning the age of 50 brings with it the shrinkage of neurons and a decrease in brain volume.
Sweating in men is 40% more active than in the representatives of the beautiful half of humanity. Both those and other sweat glands have about 2,000,000. Each liter of water they remove from the body, on average, makes a person lighter by 500 calories.
An adult member of the Homo Sapiens species inhales and exhales 23,000 times a day.
Not a single inhabitant of the Earth will succeed in sneezing with open eyes.
Over the years, women produce about 7,000,000 eggs.
Artists are able to distinguish up to 10,000,000 shades of colors with the help of vision.
Men blink twice as often as women.
The tongue is the most inflated muscle.
For the correct perception of spicy, salty, sweet and any other food, 2000 taste buds are responsible.
A child is born with 300 bones, after which their number is reduced to 206 by the time they grow up.
The heart makes 36,800,000 beats every year. During the entire time of its activity, it pumps 48 gallons of blood.
There are 10 times more colorblind men than women.
½ of all bones are located in the feet and wrists.
One of the most amazing facts about people, many believe that newborns are allegedly born without kneecaps. This is a myth - it's just that their sesamoid bones of the skeleton consist entirely of cartilaginous tissue, which becomes hard later.
Psychologists and psychiatrists were also able to learn a lot of amazing things about a person. What is the most curious and noteworthy?
