Your skin is actually an organ.
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Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of mucous.
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"Fish odor syndrome" is a rare genetic disorder that causes people to smell like rotten fish.
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If every muscle in your body could pull in one direction, you could lift nearly 25 tons.
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After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
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The record for the longest scientifically documented period without sleep is 264.4 hours (eleven days).
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Only 1% of bacteria cause disease.
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