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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The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
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When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles.
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Sex burns about 360 calories per hour.
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The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.
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By weight, Bone is five times stronger than steel.
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Having sex can make a woman look younger and more attractive due to the release of estrogen and collagen.
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The skin on your lips is 200 times more sensitive than your fingertips.
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Chewing gum boosts your brain power.
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
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A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.
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Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
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Poor eyesight (myopia) is associated with higher IQ.
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Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.
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It is possible for you to survive even after the removal of the spleen, the stomach, one kidney, one lung, 75% of the liver, 80% of the intestines, and almost every organ from the pelvic and groin area.
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Scientists estimate that laughing 100 times is equivalent to a 10-minute workout on a rowing machine.
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Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
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