There are times when you're walking that the pressure on your feet exceeds your body weight, and when you're running, it can be three or four times your weight.
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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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A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
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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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Some monks can increase their body temperature so much they can dry soaking sheets in a freezing room!
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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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