If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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Our Right Lungs takes more air than our left lung.
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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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Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
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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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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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The human body contains over a billion miles of DNA.
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