Every year your body replaces 98% of your atoms.
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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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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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Ernest Hemingway survived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, a fractured skull, and more.
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The brain receives 20% of the body’s oxygen and 25% of total body glucose utilization, despite it accounting for only 2% of a person’s weight (about 1.4 kilograms).
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On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
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It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
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