Some monks can increase their body temperature so much they can dry soaking sheets in a freezing room!
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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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There are glasses which allow a red-green color-blind person to see colors the way everyone else does.
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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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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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Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your food begin to eat you.
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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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