Cracking your knuckles does not actually hurt your bones or cause arthritis. The sound you hear is just gas bubbles bursting.
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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body.
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Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop.
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Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
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Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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The average sperm cell swims at 8 inches per hour.
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Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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