If every muscle in your body could pull in one direction, you could lift nearly 25 tons.
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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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Fingernails grow fastest on the hand you favor.
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‘Fracture putty’ is a material being developed that when packed in & around a bone fracture, provides full load bearing strength within days.
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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.
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During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.
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One out of 20 people have an extra rib.
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