A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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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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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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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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In 1996, research found that having excessive body hair is linked to higher intelligence.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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Some monks can increase their body temperature so much they can dry soaking sheets in a freezing room!
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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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