Some monks can increase their body temperature so much they can dry soaking sheets in a freezing room!
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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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Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body.
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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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There are about 1,400 different species of bacteria in your belly button.
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If every muscle in your body could pull in one direction, you could lift nearly 25 tons.
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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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Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your food begin to eat you.
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