There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee. Humans are not quite the naked apes that we’re made out to be. We have lots of hair, but on most of us it’s not obvious as a majority of the hairs are too fine or light to be seen.
Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells about every 27 days. Skin protects your delicate internal organs from the elements and as such, dries and flakes off completely about once a month so that it can ... still hanging around your house in the form of the dust on your bookshelf or under the couch.
Bone is stronger than some steel. This doesn't mean your bones can't break of course, as they are much less dense than steel. Bone has been found to have a tensile strength of 20,000 psi while ... ,000 psi. Steel is much heavier than bone, however, and pound for pound bone is the stronger material.
You could remove a large part of your internal organs and survive. The human body may appear fragile but it's possible to survive even with the removal of the stomach, the spleen, 75 percent of the ... pelvic and groin area. You might not feel too great, but the missing organs wouldn't kill you.
Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour. You may not think much about losing skin if yours isn’t dry or flaky or peeling from a sunburn, but your skin is constantly renewing itself and shedding dead cells.
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