The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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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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It is possible for you to survive even after the removal of the spleen, the stomach, one kidney, one lung, 75% of the liver, 80% of the intestines, and almost every organ from the pelvic and groin area.
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For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt.
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You see your nose at all times, your brain just chooses to ignore it.
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An Indian man known as "Snake Manu" can put small snakes, including deadly cobras, into his mouth and pass them out through his nose.
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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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