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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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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In one day, adult lungs move about 10,000 litres of air.
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The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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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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The human sigh acts as a physiological reset button.
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