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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When you get goosebumps and your hair stands, the hair helps to trap air, making you feel warmer by keeping in your body heat.
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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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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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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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