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    Crying literally alleviates stress and uniquely allows humans to decrease feelings of anger and sadness.
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    On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
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    In the average lifetime a person will breath in about 44 pounds of dust.
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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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    Exercise: Makes You More Productive and Happier All Day After Exercising
    Exercising makes you both more productive and happier for the rest of the day. Thanks to the release of brain chemicals, it improves your brain function and memory, and the positive effect lasts for the entire day.
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    When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go.
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    A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
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    Scientists estimate that laughing 100 times is equivalent to a 10-minute workout on a rowing machine.
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