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 adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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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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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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It is possible for you to survive even after the removal of the spleen, the stomach, one kidney, one lung, 75% of the liver, 80% of the intestines, and almost every organ from the pelvic and groin area.
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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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