Random Body Facts

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    The levels of two stress hormones, cortisol and epinephrine which suppress the body's immune system, will actually drop after a dose of laughter.
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    One human hair can support 3 ounces.
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    Your heart will pump about 212 million liters in its lifetime.
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    In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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    Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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    After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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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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