Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop.
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The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.
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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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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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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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The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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The average sperm cell swims at 8 inches per hour.
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