Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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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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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound - over a thousand feet per second!
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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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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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The human sigh acts as a physiological reset button.
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