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 would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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The human body contains over a billion miles of DNA.
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Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop.
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If you are cold you are more likely to be hungry because you use energy to keep warm.
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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 human brain is very soft, having a consistency similar to soft gelatin or firm tofu.
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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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