Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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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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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound - over a thousand feet per second!
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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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The human brain is very soft, having a consistency similar to soft gelatin or firm tofu.
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Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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All humans have the ability to see ultraviolet light, but it is passively filtered out by the eye's lens. People who undergo surgery to remove the lens can detect ultraviolet light.
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