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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The human body contains over a billion miles of DNA.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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If you are cold you are more likely to be hungry because you use energy to keep warm.
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After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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The human brain doesn't stop developing until about 25 years old.
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