Health Facts
Regularly updated list of health and body facts. Learn things about your body and health that you didn't know. Featuring a range of topics, including the human body, medical science, and psychology.
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Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth.
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A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
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Crushed cockroaches can be applied to a stinging wound to help relieve the pain.
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Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
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Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
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Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
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The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime!
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The right lung takes in more air than the left.
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When you look up at the blue sky and see white dots flying around, you’re actually seeing your own white blood cells.
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You see your nose at all times, your brain just chooses to ignore it.
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About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.
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At age 70, more than 70 percent of men are still potent!
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You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day.
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If you are bitten by a poisonous snake, and fail to receive medical attention, you still have a 50% chance of survival.
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Oenophobia is the Fear of wines.
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The human brain is more active during sleep than during the day.
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Laughing could dramatically improve your health – and be as good for you as a deep state of meditation, researchers have found.
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Your heart will pump about 212 million liters in its lifetime.
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