Random Body Facts

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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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    A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
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    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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    Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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