It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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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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A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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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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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
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