A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells 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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If every muscle in your body could pull in one direction, you could lift nearly 25 tons.
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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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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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