In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body.
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Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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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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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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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound - over a thousand feet per second!
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