An average heart beats 100,000 times a day, pumping some 2,000 gallons of blood through its chambers. Over a 70-year life span, that adds up to more than 2.5 billion heartbeats.
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The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
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Children are poisoned most frequently by eating harmful plants.
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From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
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The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.
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Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.
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