The power of our bodies is truly incredible — for example, there are as many nerve cells in your brain as there are stars in our galaxy (about 100 billion!) and the human brain could store the equivalent of 2.5 million gigabytes – that’s 3 million hours of your favorite TV show! The longer mankind lives, the more secrets people discover about one of the most mysterious organisms: the human body. And the more facts we gather about ourselves, the more discoveries we want to make. Today, we wanna present you with some surprising facts about the human body you might never have guessed!

Did you know, for example, that blue- and green-eyed people are less sensitive to pain than brown-eyed people? Or that your body glows in the dark? It’s just too weak for you to see it. Have you ever heard that the atoms in your body are 99% empty? And yet you feel full after dinner. How is that? The brain grows for the first 18 years of life and gets 5% smaller every 10 years after age 40. Every aspect of human beings is really fascinating, and our new compilation of unbelievable facts about our bodies will definitely surprise you!

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