Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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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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Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your food begin to eat you.
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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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The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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The levels of two stress hormones, cortisol and epinephrine which suppress the body's immune system, will actually drop after a dose of laughter.
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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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