Pregnancy is a marvel of evolution and a pretty handy way to continue the survival of our species without having to rely on external factors. Imagine, say, having to depend on a bee to take your DNA to another person just so you could reproduce.
Let’s say you just started dating a man. If you somehow had access to a brain scan and were able to take a peek inside their head
1. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea of the eye. It receives oxygen directly from the air.
2. The human brain has a memory capacity which is the equivalent of more than four terabytes on a hard drive.
3. Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
4. Nerve impulses sent from the brain move at a speed of 274 km/h.
5. On average, a person needs seven minutes to fall asleep.
6. Right-handed people chew most of their food on the right side of their mouth, whereas left-handed people do so on the left.
7. Only 7% of people are left-handed.
8. The fragrance of apples and bananas can help a person to lose weight.
9. If allowed to grow for their whole lifetime, the length of someone’s hair would be about 725 kilometres.
10. Out of all the people who can move their ears, only one third of them are able to move just one ear.
Dolphins can see with sound, they use their tell-tale clicks which travel long distances and bounce off of objects. This allows them to know how far away the object is and the shape, density, movement and texture of it.
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