Biology Fact Pages
Totally Random Biology Facts!
- Your brain has approximately 100 billion nerve cells, or neurons.
- There are nearly 74 km worth of nerves in the average human body.
- Microbiologists have estimated that a random handful of dirt can contain anywhere from 3 million to 50 billion microscopic organisms.
- Been thinking a lot today? Believe it or not, the human brain is actually much more active at night than during the day.
- Your nose can remember and recognize about 50,000 different scents.
- Children have 300 bones––adults, only 206.
- If a person's DNA was stretched into a string, it would stretch from the sun to Pluto and back—17 times.
