Random Body Facts

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    A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
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    The brain receives 20% of the body’s oxygen and 25% of total body glucose utilization, despite it accounting for only 2% of a person’s weight (about 1.4 kilograms).
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    The average sperm cell swims at 8 inches per hour.
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    Tooth growing out of foot
    Tooth growing out of foot
    In 1977, a 13-year-old boy had a tooth growing out of his left foot.
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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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    Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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    Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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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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