The human race

Mucus is a word that tends to make people screw their faces up in disgust, but the mucus that lines our stomachs plays a very important role – without it our stomachs would actually digest themselves!

 

The DNA of human beings is as much as 98.4 percent identical to that of chimpanzees. Perhaps more disturbing, it is also as much as 70 percent identical to that of a slug!

 

The lightest human baby ever to have actually survived weighed no more than 283 grams.

If you think women talk more than men, you’re right. Men speak an average of around 2,000 words per day. Women on the other hand speak an average of 7,000!

 

The human brain accounts for just 2 percent of the weight of the body, but uses 20 percent of all our energy.

 

Some people have a phobia about passing germs on by kissing, but statistics have proven that we should be more worried about shaking hands!