The man and the human body:
- The man produces 8 trillion sperm during his life;
- Bones represent 14% of our body weight;
- The small intestine measures from 6 to 9 meters;
- For each syllable that the man speaks, 72 muscles start to move;
- The human body has about 5 million hairs, 150 000 of them in the form of hair;
- When we spit, saliva can reach a speed of 170 kilometers per hour;
- Fingernails grow 1 centimeter every 28 days;
- Fingerprints form 6 to 8 weeks before the baby is born;
The other animals:
- The teeth of rodents grow non-stop
- The noisiest of land animals is the howler monkey from Central and South America
- The largest terrestrial carnivore is the polar bear;
- The woodpecker can peck up to one hundred per minute;
- The blue whale is the biggest animal on the planet;
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- Macaws and parrots are considered the most intelligent birds in the world;
- The cheetah is the fastest mammal in the world;
- The biggest armadillo in the world is the canasta armadillo;
- Capybaras are the largest rodents in the world;
- The emperor moth is the largest in the world;
- The giant squid has the biggest eye in the animal world;
- The animal that lives the longest is the Galapagos tortoise;
- The elephant seal is the animal that can dive deeper;
- The whale shark is the biggest fish in the world;
- There are more than 125,000 species of molluscs;
- Vultures can see a distance of up to three kilometers;
- A newborn elephant weighs a hundred kilos;
- The giraffe gives the most violent kick in the animal world;
- A bee produces five grams of honey per year;
- A porcupine has an average of 30,000 thorns.
By Mariana Araguaia
Would you like to reference this text in a school or academic work? Look:
ARAGUAIA, Mariana. "Man, human body and other animals"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/curiosidades/curiosidadesbiologia.htm. Accessed on June 27, 2021.
