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.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
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The average tastebud lives only 10 days before it dies and is replaced by a new one.
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The chemicals indole and skatole, which help to account for the particular smell of human feces, are used as ingredients in perfume!
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The first patented condom was meant to be reused!
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The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime!
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The human brain is insensitive to pain.
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The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 ft.
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The lense of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life.
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The right lung takes in more air than the left.
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The smallest human penis ever recorded was just 5/8 of an inch long!
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The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.
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There are 206 bones in the human body!
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There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
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Unlike dogs, pigs, and some other mammals, humans cannot taste water. They taste only the chemicals and impurities in the water.
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Vaccines contain formaldehyde, ethylene glycol (antifreeze), phenol (disinfectant / pesticide), and aluminum.
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We blink 25 times a minute.
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When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go.
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When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too.
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While 7 men in 100 have some form of color blindness, only 1 woman in 1,000 suffers from it.
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Women buy four out of every 10 condoms sold.
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