Pain occurs when sounds are above 130 db.
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Your fingernails grow faster in summer.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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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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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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A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
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Your heart will pump about 212 million liters in its lifetime.
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