A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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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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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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The human brain is very soft, having a consistency similar to soft gelatin or firm tofu.
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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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The human body contains over a billion miles of DNA.
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