The largest cell in the human body is the ovum (egg).

You have 5 senses (touch, sight, hearing, taste, smell)

Your hair and fingernails continue to grow for a while after you die.

If you swallow your gum it takes about seven years to digest.

The human heart has enough blood pressure to squirt blood up to 9 metres away!

For every 1000 red blood cells in your body there is only 1 white blood cell.

You shed and regrow your skin once every 27 days.

You can lose up to 75 percent of your liver, and the remaining parts can regenerate into a whole liver again.

There are more bacteria and microbes in our body than actual human cells.

You only use about 10% of your brain.

Your blood vessels, if laid end to end, would encircle the globe more than once.

The smallest bone in the human body is the baby toe.

Your brain cells (neurons) could outlive your body cells.

The appendix has no known function.

The kidney filters about 180L of blood each day. To put that into context a carton of milk is about 1L.

The most common blood type in Canada is Type O+

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have grown more.

Some people are double jointed.

Your skeleton completely replaces itself every 10 years or so.