In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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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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Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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The levels of two stress hormones, cortisol and epinephrine which suppress the body's immune system, will actually drop after a dose of laughter.
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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 you are cold you are more likely to be hungry because you use energy to keep warm.
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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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