Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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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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The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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The human brain doesn't stop developing until about 25 years old.
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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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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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