The Human Body: True or False - Statistics

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Question Answer % Correct
The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in their life True
83%
your feet have half a million sweat glands that produce over a pint of fluid everyday True
70%
During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools. True
70%
Apart from identical twins every single person on Earth has a unique smell True
61%
A full bladder is roughly the size of a softball True
61%
Your stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve razor blades True
57%
By age sixty you will have lost half your taste buds True
57%
The acid in your stomach doesn’t eat through your body because the stomach cells are renewed faster than they are destroyed True
52%
Your brain uses up about 20% of all your body’s oxygen and calories True
52%
Babies can only see black and white when they are born True
52%
80% of your brain is water True
52%
Most babies, of all races, are born with blue eyes True
48%
Swallowed chewing gum takes seven years to digest False
43%
Women blink twice as much as men True
39%
The average life span of a human hair is 3-7 years True
39%
A higher IQ is correlated with more dreams True
35%
Your cornea is the only part of your body without a blood supply. It gets its oxygen directly from the air True
35%
You are about 1 cm shorter at night. True
30%
Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born True
30%
Men get hiccups twice as much as women True
26%
After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp True
26%
You have five senses False
17%
Fingernails and hair continue to grow after death False
17%
Some people are double-jointed False
17%
Most of your body heat escapes through your head False
9%
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