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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 heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
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    Salt Mine Hospital
    Salt Mine Hospital
    In Ukraine, there's a thousand-foot-deep salt mine that is used to treat respiratory ailments. Inside, there is substantially less bacteria in the air than in the most sterile room in a hospital.
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    Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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    Your heart will pump about 212 million liters in its lifetime.
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    The human brain is insensitive to pain.
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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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    Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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