Amazing wow facts

• We humans are the best long-distance runners on the planet. Better than any four-legged animal. In fact, thousands of years ago we used to run after our prey until they died of exhaustion.

• The human eye is so sensitive that if the Earth were flat, you could spot a candle flickering at night from up to 30 miles away.

• Nerve impulses travel to and from the brain at speeds of up to 250 miles per hour, faster than a Formula 1 racecar.

• When in love, the human brain releases the same cocktail of neurotransmitters and hormones that are released by amphetamines. This leads to increased heart rate, loss of appetite and sleep, and intense feelings of excitement.

• The atoms that make up your human body today are same atoms that formed during the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago.

• If the human brain were a computer, it could perform 38 thousand-trillion operations per second. The world's most powerful supercomputer, BlueGene, can manage only .002% of that.

• The focusing muscles in your eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you'd need to walk 50 miles.

• Your body produces 25 million new cells each second. Every 13 seconds, you produce more cells than there are people in the United States.

• Around 90% of the cells that make humans aren't “human" in origin. We're mostly fungi and bacteria.

• Humans shed 40 pounds of skin in their lifetime, completely replacing their outer skin every month.