Your body is many things: a mechanical device, a walking chemistry set, a sustainable life form, and an ever-changing biological phenomenon. There’s a lot to know about the body. Were you aware of these ten amazing facts?

1. YOU ARE TALLER IN THE MORNING THAN IN THE EVENING.

Did you know that we actually change height based on the time of day? On average, you’re one inch taller when you wake up in the morning

When you sleep, excess fluids build up inside your spinal discs, and the stress of standing in a day causes the fluid to seep out – making you lose height.If you measure yourself first thing in the morning and again at night, you should see a small but visible difference.

2. TICKLING

Have you ever tried tickling yourself? Doesn’t really work, does it? The reason for this is your brain actually anticipates the sensation. It discards expected ones and alerts you to unexpected ones, hence why you might have such a strong reaction to someone else tickling you

3. BY THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN YOUR BRAIN STOPS GROWING

From that age forward it begins to lose more than 1,000 brain cells every day. Only two percent of your body weight is occupied by your gray matter, but is uses up to 20% of your overall energy output (it needs carbohydrates). Your brain works continuously and never rests, even when you’re asleep. Aside from producing REM dreams, your brain works overtime to replenish its ability to function normally during your daytime waking hours.

4. NOSTRIL BREATHING

You might never think about it, but breathing through your nose is actually quite complex – and the effects are intense. 85% of people only breathe through one nostril at a time, the other nostril gets subconsciously blocked by tissue swelling, which you might’ve noticed when you can’t unclog one nostril even though there’s nothing in there

5. RUNNY NOSE 

We all get runny noses when we have the flu, but even when we’re just cold our nose will tend to drip way more than normal. This is because normally we produce a litre of mucus daily, most of which gets swallowed down our throat without us even noticing.

In cold weather, more blood is pumped through our nostrils, accelerating snot production in addition to keeping our nose warm so that warm air enters our lungs.

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