There are times when you're walking that the pressure on your feet exceeds your body weight, and when you're running, it can be three or four times your weight.
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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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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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Quick naps not only improve your alertness, but they also help in decision making, creativity and sensory perception.
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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 thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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