34 Surprising Facts About The Nose | Legacy Facts

# A total of 14 different types of the nose are found in humans. Abraham Tamir, a professor from Israel, found this after surveying 1,793 images of the nose.

# The shape of the nose depends upon a person's ethnic background.

# Nose and Ears never stop growing.

# On average men's noses are larger than women.

# In women, the sense of smell is stronger than the sense of smell in men.

# In women, the brain region is up to 50 per cent larger for smell processing.

# Sense of smell is the only one of the five senses in humans that has a direct connection with the hippocampus – the part of the brain that is responsible for memory formation.

# Human babies know their mothers by their mother's scent.

# Smelling is scientifically known as olfaction.

# There are 12 million olfactory (smell) receptor cells in humans, while 100 million in rabbits and four billion in bloodhounds.

# Each human has an exclusive print of the smell. Two different individuals may have a different perception for a particular scent. For example, one person's perception of the turmeric scent can vary from that of another person.

# Your nose and sinuses produce nearly one liter (which you swallow) of mucus a day.

# Your nose is lined with hair-like, microscopic structures, called cilia. Cilia sweep mucus every five to eight minutes into the back of the nose.

# When a person gets sick due to flu the nose gets runny. This happens because in an attempt to kill microbes invading the body the nose produces more mucus than usual.

# Different individuals have different styles of sneezing that are genetically determined. So, the members of a given family will have similar sneezing styles that will be different from the sneezing styles of other families.

# A single sneeze produces 40,000 droplets, travels up to 20 miles per hour, creating a spray radius of 5'.

# You don’t sneeze in your sleep because the nerves that trigger sneezing are also sleeping.

# Eighty percent of what you are tasting is determined by what you are smelling.

# Human beings are capable of smelling their romantic partner's feelings such as sexual arousal and happiness as long as the two of them are close.

# 45 percent of men and 25 percent of women have a regular snoring habit.

# At the age of 65, humans lose some of their ability to smell. Fifty percent of smelling abilities are lost at the age of 80.

# After death, the nasal cilia move up to 20 hours. Researchers claim this could be measure time of death.

# Some people might have an extremely strong sense of smell. This is referred to as hyperosmia.

# Scientifically, inability to smell is called anosmia.

# Dysosmia is defined as the inability to smell something correctly.

# Deficiency of zinc in the body may also lead to loss of sense of smell.

# Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and diabetes may also lead to a loss of sense of smell.

# Anything human nose can not smell is lethal to humans. The human nose, for instance, can not smell natural gas (one that humans can smell is actually a different compound called mercaptan added to natural gas), carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, etc.

# Nose-involving plastic surgery is called "rhinoplasty."

# Research in 2002 showed that if you learn through one nostril to recognize a smell, you will also recognize it through the other.

# Pressing the noses (hongi) as a greeting is traditional for the Maori people in New Zealand.

# The Nose Improver was invented by Professor Lees Ray of Liverpool in the 1890s, a brass implement designed to press ugly noses into better shapes.

# In writing on the keyboard, Mohammed Khurshid Hussain from India set the world record with the following sentence: "World Guinness World Records have set the challenge for me to write this sentence with my nose in the shortest possible time." It took him 53.44 seconds.

# In 1873, Mr Jefferson of America and William Dufton of the United Kingdom played a match of billiards. Dufton played normally, but Jefferson played the balls with his nose and won by 47 points.

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