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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Sleeping on your stomach can induce weirder, scarier, and sexier dreams.
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There are glasses which allow a red-green color-blind person to see colors the way everyone else does.
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Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your food begin to eat you.
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Research indicates that babies who suck on pacifiers are more prone to ear aches.
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During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.
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In the average lifetime a person will breath in about 44 pounds of dust.
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Drinking banana milkshake is a perfect cure for hangover.
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The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.
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Drinking watermelon juice before a workout helps reduce muscle soreness.
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Your wounds heal faster if you lick them, you instinctively do this for that reason. Tears help, too.
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In Nepal, cow dung is used for medicinal purposes.
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Those who get out of bed by 7am are more likely to be thinner and happier.
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Applying vodka to your face helps tighten your pores and can reduce the risk of acne breakouts.
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Tap water in Canada is held to a higher health standard than bottled water.
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Flu shots only work about 70% of the time.
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Cracking your knuckles does not actually hurt your bones or cause arthritis. The sound you hear is just gas bubbles bursting.
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A third of the human population sneezes when they look at the Sun. Light can signal the ocular nerve near the sinuses and triggers a sneeze.
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