There is a disease called ichthyosis that turns the skin scaly like a fish.
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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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Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound - over a thousand feet per second!
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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
256
Men have larger hearts; women's hearts beat faster.
77
Ernest Hemingway survived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, a fractured skull, and more.
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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.
18
Redheads require more anesthesia to 'go under' than other hair colors do.
50