It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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An Indian man known as "Snake Manu" can put small snakes, including deadly cobras, into his mouth and pass them out through his nose.
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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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You see your nose at all times, your brain just chooses to ignore it.
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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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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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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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