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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Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than those who don't .
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Men are twice as likely to be binge drinkers than women.
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On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
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Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.
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The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
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The smallest human penis ever recorded was just 5/8 of an inch long!
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Men have larger hearts; women's hearts beat faster.
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Smoking while pregnant increases the chances of spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) stillbirths and premature labor.
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The human brain is insensitive to pain.
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The average sperm cell swims at 8 inches per hour.
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You mostly breathe from only one nostril at a time!
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The male fetus is capable of attaining an erection during the last trimester.
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One or two alcohol drinks a day can be anti-inflammatory.
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A man once sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than the doctor predicted.
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Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.
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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 have no sense of smell when you're sleeping!
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Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
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Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients.
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