When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles.
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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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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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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body.
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The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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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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