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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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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When you get goosebumps and your hair stands, the hair helps to trap air, making you feel warmer by keeping in your body heat.
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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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Our Right Lungs takes more air than our left lung.
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Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
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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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The human sigh acts as a physiological reset button.
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