Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
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The average person will go on a date at least 100 times before they finally marry.
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It took 200,000 years for humans to reach 3 billion in number. It took 40 years for the next 3 billion.
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Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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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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