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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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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The 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!
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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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There are so many kinds of apples that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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