Physiology
Your Eyes Can See Millions Of Colours
The human eye can tell apart around a million colours using just three kinds of cone cells.
The human eye can tell apart around a million colours using just three kinds of cone cells.

Babies are born with around 300 bones; many fuse as they grow, leaving adults with 206.

Your heart beats about 100,000 times a day, pumping roughly 7,500 litres of blood around your body.

The liver can regrow to full size even after much of it is removed, the only organ able to regenerate like that.

Spread flat, the tiny air sacs in your lungs would cover roughly half a tennis court.

The human body has more than 600 muscles, and even a simple smile uses around a dozen of them.

Skin is your largest organ, and you shed tens of thousands of skin cells every minute.