It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
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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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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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It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
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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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Your heart will pump about 212 million liters in its lifetime.
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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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