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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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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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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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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