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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The chemicals indole and skatole, which help to account for the particular smell of human feces, are used as ingredients in perfume!
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Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
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Every cigarette smoked cuts at least five minutes of life on average, which is roughly the time it takes to smoke one cigarette.
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Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second!
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About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.
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Foreign accent syndrome is a rare brain disorder which causes people to speak in a foreign accent involuntarily.
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Crushed cockroaches can be applied to a stinging wound to help relieve the pain.
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