It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
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The human brain is more active during sleep than during the day.
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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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A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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Crying literally alleviates stress and uniquely allows humans to decrease feelings of anger and sadness.
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Obsessive nose picking is called Rhinotillexomania.
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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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There are about 255 babies born worldwide every minute.
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