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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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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Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop.
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When you get goosebumps and your hair stands, the hair helps to trap air, making you feel warmer by keeping in your body heat.
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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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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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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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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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