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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Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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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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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 takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
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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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There are times when you're walking that the pressure on your feet exceeds your body weight, and when you're running, it can be three or four times your weight.
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