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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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
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All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).
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Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
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Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop.
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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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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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