There are glasses which allow a red-green color-blind person to see colors the way everyone else does.
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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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It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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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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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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For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt.
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