An average heart beats 100,000 times a day, pumping some 2,000 gallons of blood through its chambers. Over a 70-year life span, that adds up to more than 2.5 billion heartbeats.
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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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An Indian man known as "Snake Manu" can put small snakes, including deadly cobras, into his mouth and pass them out through his nose.
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Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your food begin to eat you.
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Women have about four times as many foot problems as men; lifelong patterns of wearing high heels often are the culprit.
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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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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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Your heart will pump about 212 million liters in its lifetime.
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