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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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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Some monks can increase their body temperature so much they can dry soaking sheets in a freezing room!
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Our Right Lungs takes more air than our left lung.
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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