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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It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress Cardiomyopathy.
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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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The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.
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Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
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If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a tennis court.
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When you fall in love, that 'high' feeling is caused by a flood of dopamine that is similar to that of cocaine.
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Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself.
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