It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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The human brain is very soft, having a consistency similar to soft gelatin or firm tofu.
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If you hold farts in during the day, they'll just come out when you sleep.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your food begin to eat you.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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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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In 1996, research found that having excessive body hair is linked to higher intelligence.
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