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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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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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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In 1996, research found that having excessive body hair is linked to higher intelligence.
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The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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