Poor eyesight (myopia) is associated with higher IQ.
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Your heart will pump about 212 million liters in its lifetime.
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There are times when you're walking that the pressure on your feet exceeds your body weight, and when you're running, it can be three or four times your weight.
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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Cracking your knuckles does not actually hurt your bones or cause arthritis. The sound you hear is just gas bubbles bursting.
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Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
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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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An average heart beats 100,000 times a day, pumping some 2,000 gallons of blood through its chambers. Over a 70-year life span, that adds up to more than 2.5 billion heartbeats.
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