Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
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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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There's 100 trillion good bacteria living in your body.
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The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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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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Women have about four times as many foot problems as men; lifelong patterns of wearing high heels often are the culprit.
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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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