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Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Humans shedabout 600,000particles of skinevery hour.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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An adult human being is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A human baby has over 60 more bones than an adult.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in an adult human body.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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An average person produces about 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Your body has enough iron in it to make a metal nail 3 inches long.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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We all have tiny mites living in our eyelashes.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The strongest muscle in the human body is the masseter (jaw muscle).♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Sweat itself is odorless. It's the bacteria on the skin that mingles with it and produces body odor.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Having excessive body hair is linked to a higher intellect.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Ears and Nose never stop growing.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Similar to fingerprints, everyone also has a Unique Tongue Print.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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When awake, the human brain produces enough electricity to power a small light bulb.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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People with blue eyes have a higher alcohol tolerance.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The human eyecan distinguishabout 10 milliondifferent colors.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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If the human eye was a digital camera it would have 576 megapixels.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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All of the bacteria in our body collectively weighs about 4 pounds.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The human body produces about a litre (0.26 gal) of mucus per day.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There are more than 100 types of cancers; any part of the body can be affected.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Your brain uses 20% of the total oxygen and blood in your body.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Your bones are composed of 31% water.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There're more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Every day, your heart creates enough energy to drive a truck for 20 miles (32 km).♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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If uncoiled, the DNA in all the cells in your body would stretch 10 billion miles, from here to Pluto and back.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Most of the dustunderneath your bedis actually your owndead skin.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Sleeping less than 7 hours each night reduces your life expectancy.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In a lifetime, your brain's long-term memory can hold as many as 1 quadrillion (1 million billion) separate bits of information.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The gastrointestinal tract is a 30-foot (9 m) tube running from your mouth to your anus.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Your heart will pump nearly
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Your heart can keep beating even if it is separated from the body because it has its own electrical impulse.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Your brain keeps developing until your late 40s.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Our lungs and nasal passages have exquisitely tiny hairs called cilia that can "taste" bitter flavors.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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When you take one step, you are using up to 200 muscles.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The chemical elements that make up your body are worth around US$160.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Human fingers can feel objects as small as 13 nanometers. If your finger was the size of the Earth, you would feel the difference between houses and cars.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The highest recorded body temperature in a human being was a fever of 115.7°F (46.5°C).♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The human heart is not on the left-hand side of the body; it's in the middle.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Half of your genes describe the complex design of your brain, with the other half describing the organization of the other 98% of your body.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Your taste buds are replaced every 10 days.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The average ageof ahuman fat cellis 10 years.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There is no scientific evidence that shaving or waxing will make your hair come back thicker.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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If your stomach acidgot onto your skinit would burna hole in it.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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1 in 10,000 people has their internal organs reversed or "mirrored" from their normal positions.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Without your pinky finger, you would lose about 50% of your hand strength.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Your lungscan hold up to5 minutesworth of oxygen.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Scars continue to look the same year after year because, while skin cells are replaced periodically, the underlying collagen is not.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The human body emits upwards of 10^6 biological particles per hour, creating a detectible microbial cloud into surrounding indoor air.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A nanometre is about as much as your nails grows every second.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Men's Testicles hang between the legs to keep cool because sperm dies at body temperature.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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1 out of every 200 people have an extra rib.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Your mouth is made of the same skin cells as a vagina.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Muscle comes from the Latin musculus, which means "little mouse," because a flexed muscle was thought to resemble a mouse.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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While receiving a single tattoo temporarily weakens your immune system, receiving several tattoos over time could strengthen it.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Liars blink less frequently than normal during the lie, and then speed up to around eight times faster than usual afterwards.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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You spend 10% of your waking life blinking.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Some non-redheaded men have red beards because they have one copy of the MC1R gene. Two copies would make them fully redheads.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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More than 3% of people are born with phonagnosia: they can't recognize the voices of familiar people.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A scientist cracked his knuckles on one hand for over 50 years to prove it did not cause Arthritis.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Eating too much meat can accelerate your body's biological age.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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You can burn 20% more fat by exercising in the morning on an empty stomach.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Cornflakes have more genes than people do.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Humans have no more genes than worms.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Our bodies consist of 60 out of 118 confirmed elements in the periodic table or 50.8% of the periodic table.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Sex burns 3.6 calories a minute.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A strong cough forces air out of the airways at speeds up to 1000 km/h, almost as fast as the speed of sound (1234 km/h).♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Your brain can recognize a sound 10 times faster than the blink of an eye.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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It takes about 0.2 seconds for your brain to understand the light that reaches your eye.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Bras make breasts sag, according to a French study published in 2013.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A woman's vaginal muscles can take up to 6 months to get back to their normal shape and size after childbirth.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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One prevailing theory as to why butt hair exists is that there's simplyno significant evolutionary pressure against butt hair.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Hearing is the fastest human sense. A person can recognize a sound in as little as 0.05 seconds.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Breastfeeding actually changes the way a mother's brain works, making her more attuned to the child's crying.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Ancient Greeks investigated animal structure and described the difference between arteries and veins around 500 BCE.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The cost of sequencing a human genome went from US$100 million in 2007 to about US$3,000 in 2012.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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It takes about 0.2 seconds for your brain to recognize something touching your hand or foot.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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We can't digest grass because our bodies don't have what it takes to break down the cellulose found in the plant.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A study found that right-handed individuals have better oral hygiene and the lower incidence of caries because of their better manual dexterity and brush efficiency.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The big toe carries the most weight of all the toes, bearing about 40% of the load.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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To enlist in the U.S. army, you have to have all ten of your toes intact.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Until the Renaissance, understanding of human anatomy was based on the dissection of animals, with human autopsies considered an affront in virtually all cultures.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Inner speech can clock in at 4,000 words per minute, 10X faster than verbal speech.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Some people never develop fingerprints.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Beer and vaginas have almost the same acidity levels, with an average pH of 4.5.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The iron in our blood and the calcium in our bones come from ancient explosions of giant stars.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Borborygmusis the scientific namefor when yourstomach growls.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A transplanted great toe decreases in size up to one third when transplanted to the hand.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Your hair contains traces of gold.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Skulls are like fingerprints. Frontal sinus print is found to be unique to a particular individual.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Oxford University discovered if someone prods one of your middle toes while your eyes are shut, most people can't tell which toe is being touched.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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80% of what we learn is through our eyes.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Eating garlic improves your body odour.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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You don't gain and lose fat as your weight fluctuates. Your fat cells just bigger or smaller.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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