In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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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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A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
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All humans have the ability to see ultraviolet light, but it is passively filtered out by the eye's lens. People who undergo surgery to remove the lens can detect ultraviolet light.
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There's 100 trillion good bacteria living in your body.
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You see your nose at all times, your brain just chooses to ignore it.
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In 1996, research found that having excessive body hair is linked to higher intelligence.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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