Facts about the brilliance of our body

1. You’re Taller In The Morning Than Any Other Time

Excess fluid replenishes itself and builds up in the spinal discs over night, or during sleep. During the course of the day and when standing or sitting upright, these discs become compressed and the fluid seeps out, which results in losing extra height. The difference isn’t major, though it is significant enough that you may lose anywhere from half an inch to an inch in height by the end of the day, and regain this again upon waking.

2.  Your Skin Is an Important Organ

Just like the heart, liver, kidneys, and any other organ in the human body – your skin is also an organ. In fact, it’s the only organ on the outside of the body and is the largest organ you have, beings as it covers us from head to toe. The average man has enough skin on his body to cover approximately twenty square feet. For the average woman, that number is approximately seventeen square feet. Your skin sheds and replaces 45,000+ cells in only a few seconds, and makes up about 12% of overall body weight.

3. The Amount of Blood You Pump Is Unreal

To put the amount of blood you pump in only a single hour into perspective, you would need to consume a quart of water each day for four months (or 240 quarts in one hour) to equal the same amount. Over the course of an average lifetime (not factoring in heartbeats from exercise), but a normal and fairly sedentary lifestyle would equate to your heart pumping enough blood to fill thirteen oil super tankers. In addition to this, your heart would beat about 40,000,000 times a year, and 2,600,000,000 times in a single lifetime

4. The Body Creates Enough Heat In Half an Hour To Boil Water.

Granted, the body is unable to boil water at any given time else our insides would boil up, especially considering we’re made of about 60-70% water ourselves. However, if the heat our body produces could be captured and built upon, we create enough to boil water in only half an hour. This is due to the all the heat we produce from sweat, exercise, metabolizing food, exhaling, excreting waste and urination, maintaining homeostasis, among other methods of heat build-up.