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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Poor eyesight (myopia) is associated with higher IQ.
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The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
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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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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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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 brain is very soft, having a consistency similar to soft gelatin or firm tofu.
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Every year your body replaces 98% of your atoms.
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