It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
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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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Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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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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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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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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