Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
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The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.
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Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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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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One human hair can support 3 ounces.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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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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