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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You can reschedule your sleeping pattern by not eating 12-16 hours before you want to be awake. Upon eating after this time period, your internal clock will reset to a new day, with the time of your first meal being interpreted as "morning".
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More people have a phobia of frogs than rats.
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Foreign accent syndrome is a rare brain disorder which causes people to speak in a foreign accent involuntarily.
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The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.
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Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body.
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