There are about 255 babies born worldwide every minute.
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After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
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Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
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Playing Tetris after a traumatic event can prevent the development of traumatic memories and reduce the chance of having flashbacks.
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Our Right Lungs takes more air than our left lung.
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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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On average a woman has 4 sexual partners in her lifetime.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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