The human body is an amazing thing, but even though we spend all day with ourselves, there are still plenty of things that you probably don’t know about your body. We’ve compiled a bumper list of interesting facts for you to drop in conversation and impress your friends!

1. If you’re a female and you feel like your heart beats quicker than your male counterparts, you’re not wrong. Women’s hearts are proven to beat faster than men’s.

2. As well as having faster heart beats, women blink twice as much as men as well.

3. Hiccups can last a very long time. The record is held by Charles Osborne – this poor man had hiccups for a total of 68 years without stopping!

4. Around 70% of people tilt their heads to the right rather than the left when kissing somebody else.

5. Can’t remember your dream from last night? That’s perfectly normal, since most people will forget 90% of their dreams.

6. Make sure you wear a hat this winter – a total of 80% of your body heat is lost through your head, so it’s time to invest in a good woolly beanie.

7. It’s not just your cheeks that turn red and expose your embarrassment when you’re blushing. Your stomach also turns red, but not many people will notice this.

8. Every 3-4 seconds, around 50,000 cells in your body will die and be replaced by new ones.

9. Fingerprints are unique to each person, making them an amazing phenomenon. Adding to this is the fact that they’re developed within just three months of conception, meaning you were totally unique from the start.

10. During the average lifetime, your heart will pump a grand total of 182 million liters of blood.

11. If you’re a man, the smallest cells in your body are sperm cells.

12. It’s scientifically proven that children grow

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And about The Igbos, is it genetic?

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