Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound - over a thousand feet per second!
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After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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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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Held in farts enter your bloodstream and are bad for your body.
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The brain receives 20% of the body’s oxygen and 25% of total body glucose utilization, despite it accounting for only 2% of a person’s weight (about 1.4 kilograms).
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It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
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