Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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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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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 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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If every muscle in your body could pull in one direction, you could lift nearly 25 tons.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt.
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