The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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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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It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
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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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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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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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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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