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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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 brain doesn't stop developing until about 25 years old.
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The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
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Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
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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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