The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.
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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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Held in farts enter your bloodstream and are bad for your body.
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The average sperm cell swims at 8 inches per hour.
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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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If you hold farts in during the day, they'll just come out when you sleep.
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In one day, adult lungs move about 10,000 litres of air.
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