The human body contains over a billion miles of DNA.
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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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Women have about four times as many foot problems as men; lifelong patterns of wearing high heels often are the culprit.
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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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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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There are about 1,400 different species of bacteria in your belly button.
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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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