You see your nose at all times, your brain just chooses to ignore it.
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‘Fracture putty’ is a material being developed that when packed in & around a bone fracture, provides full load bearing strength within days.
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Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
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Men are twice as likely to be binge drinkers than women.
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Women buy four out of every 10 condoms sold.
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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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A new parent will lose about 1055.6 hours of sleep in the first year of their child's life - almost 44 days!
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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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