Facts We Probably Didn’t Know

The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea of the eye. It receives oxygen directly from the air.

The average human body contains enough sulfur to kill all the fleas on the average dog, enough carbon to make 900 pencils, enough potassium to fire a toy cannon, enough fat to make seven bars of soap and enough water to fill a 50-litre barrel.

A newborn child can breathe and swallow at the same time for up to seven months.

The human brain has a memory capacity thatis the equivalent of more than four terabytes on a hard drive.