Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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The brain receives 20% of the body’s oxygen and 25% of total body glucose utilization, despite it accounting for only 2% of a person’s weight (about 1.4 kilograms).
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After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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Your heart will pump about 212 million liters in its lifetime.
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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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There are glasses which allow a red-green color-blind person to see colors the way everyone else does.
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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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