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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It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
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An Indian man known as "Snake Manu" can put small snakes, including deadly cobras, into his mouth and pass them out through his nose.
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The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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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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After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop.
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