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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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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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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Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop.
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The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
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All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).
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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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When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles.
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