We share 70% of our DNA with a slug.
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A third of the human population sneezes when they look at the Sun. Light can signal the ocular nerve near the sinuses and triggers a sneeze.
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The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Enamel is hardest substance in the human body.
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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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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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