The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose.
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When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go.
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Your spit has a painkiller 6 times stronger than morphine. It contains a substance called opiorphin that is stronger than morphine.
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Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.
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The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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Bearing a male child can alter a woman's brain by leaving male DNA that can persist for the rest of her life, making her less likely to suffer from Alzheimer's disease, promote tissue repair, and improve her immune system.
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India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early 17th Century.
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By weight, Bone is five times stronger than steel.
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