Myth: Hair and nails keep growing after death
Reality: Hair and fingernails do not keep growing once someone dies. Instead, the skin dries out and shrinks, giving the appearance… more
Myth: Humans got HIV because someone had sex with a monkey.
Reality: HIV probably didn’t jump to humans through human-monkey sex. It probably jumped to humans through the hunting of monkeys for… more
Humans genetically related to bananas
Gene sequencing reveals that we have more in common with bananas, chickens, and fruit flies than you may expect. Banana: more… more
Human children don’t get kneecap bones until they’re around three years old.
As Torech noted on Reddit, it takes a while for children to get kneecaps. That part of the skeleton is called the patella.… more
Human Body with Water
Up to 60% of the human adult body is water. According to H.H. Mitchell, Journal of Biological Chemistry 158, the brain and heart are composed… more
Human psychology
People who think their opinions are superior to others may be most prone to overestimating their relevant knowledge and ignoring… more
45 miles of nerves
Every second, the human body transmits over 100,000 messages which control everything from the heart to the movement of a… more
Human Body Cells
Cells are always created and destroyed in the human body. About 300 million cells die every minute in our bodies!… more