Random Body Facts

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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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    Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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    A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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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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    If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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    Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body.
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