There are about 255 babies born worldwide every minute.
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Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
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The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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Cats have a weak sense of taste. They have only 473 tastebuds, humans have 9,000.
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It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
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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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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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