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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A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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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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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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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
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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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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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