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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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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Research has determined that most people are happiest at 7:26pm on a Saturday night.
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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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Cats have a weak sense of taste. They have only 473 tastebuds, humans have 9,000.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
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If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.
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