It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
102
Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop.
190
When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles.
886
Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
193
An Indian man known as "Snake Manu" can put small snakes, including deadly cobras, into his mouth and pass them out through his nose.
59
The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
99
Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body.
92
It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
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