It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
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By the age of 60, most people have lost 50% of their taste buds.
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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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Your wounds heal faster if you lick them, you instinctively do this for that reason. Tears help, too.
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An average adult produces about half a liter of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day.
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There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
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Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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A new parent will lose about 1055.6 hours of sleep in the first year of their child's life - almost 44 days!
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