A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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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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Some people have a "natural alarm clock" allowing them to wake up when they want. This is actually caused by a burst of the stress hormone adrenocorticotropin.
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Household bleach is the recommended chemical to decontaminate people exposed to the anthrax virus, by the U.S. F.D.A.
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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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According to one report, it would take 800 marijuana joints to kill a person - but the cause of death would be carbon monoxide poisoning.
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40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by Americans.
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The human body contains over a billion miles of DNA.
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