9 out of 10 people who were ever struck by lightning have survived the encounter. It doesn’t even depend on the state of a person’s body since the survivors’ ages range from children to people in their 50s.

Have you ever noticed that your toothache is linked to your headache? You’re not just imagining things — thanks to the trigeminal nerve that goes through your jaw to your head, those 2 pains usually go hand in hand.

Stages of the human sleep process were discovered in the 1950s and according to findings, our brains are busier when asleep than when awake.

As a psychological or physical response to our environment, blushing can be perceived as cute and we are proud to say that humans are the only creatures on Earth that can do it!

Our brain, as powerful as it is, possesses no nerve endings that would register pain or damage to it. However, for it to function, it takes up to 25% of all the oxygen your body gets.

If you ever ask the male population about this, they will agree that they have to “face this fact” every day when they have to shave. It’s probably good that a lot of women find bearded guys attractive, right?

It may be inconvenient for your manicure upkeep, but it’s absolutely true: the middle fingernail grows the fastest.

If you take each and every vessel in your body and put it back to back, they’d make up a length of 96,000 kilometers or 60,000 miles in children and a whopping 100,000 miles in adults.

Canadian scientists revealed that the female heart runs faster at about 1.7 — 2.3 hours ahead of the male heart. It has about 10 beats a minute more.

Talk about busy bees — our livers do everything from filtering blood, breaking down and absorbing fats, processing cholesterol and some vitamins, and a ton more!

Can you imagine if you were carrying around a pouch of extremely powerful acid at all times? Well, you are! We’d never suggest trying this on your own stomach but just know this: it can dissolve metal over time.

Your foot has 500,000 sweat glands, so it can produce up to 2 pints of sweat a day.

Your coughing can reach the speed of 50 miles per hour, so in some states, it’s faster than a car speed limit within the city borders.

Isn’t it peculiar, that during the early stages of pregnancy, women dream of frogs, worms, and potted plants? This could have an interesting meaning psychologically or have no meaning at all — but can’t we agree that pregnant ladies go through enough as it is?

This fact is simple but very weird — all of us at some point, for about a half an hour have been nothing more than a single cell.

Ever tried to ask anybody to do anything after a good lunch? Well, if they didn’t do it, it wasn’t out of spite. That’s because after a heavy meal, our hearing (as well as our energy level) worsens.

Remember when olives were the worst food ever? If now they seem like a good pairing with a bunch of other foods with sharp tastes, it is because over time with the aging process we’re losing taste bud sensitivity and by the age of 60, people usually lose up to 40% of their sense of taste.

Ultraviolet rays our skin receives during a sunburn affects the surface layer of our vessel system in a destructive way. Just another great reason to use sunscreen!