Health Facts
Regularly updated list of health and body facts. Learn things about your body and health that you didn't know. Featuring a range of topics, including the human body, medical science, and psychology.
If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a tennis court.
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If your stomach didn't produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks, it would digest itself.
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In Japan, condoms are commonly sold 'door to door'!
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In Nepal, cow dung is used for medicinal purposes.
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In older people, memory is best early in the morning and then declines during the late afternoon.
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In the average lifetime a person will breath in about 44 pounds of dust.
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India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early 17th Century.
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Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
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It is possible to go blind from smoking too heavily.
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It takes 17 muscles to smile, 43 to frown.
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Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
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Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients.
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Midgets and dwarfs almost always have normal sized children.
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More people have a phobia of frogs than rats.
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More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
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Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.
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Most lipstick contains fish scales.
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Motorists who talk on cell phones are more impaired than drunk drivers with blood-alcohol levels exceeding .08!
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Nearly 80 percent of all sudden cardiac arrests happen at home.
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Oenophobia is the Fear of wines.
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