The average sperm cell swims at 8 inches per hour.
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Quick naps not only improve your alertness, but they also help in decision making, creativity and sensory perception.
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After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop.
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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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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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The human brain is very soft, having a consistency similar to soft gelatin or firm tofu.
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