After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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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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It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
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Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop.
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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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There are times when you're walking that the pressure on your feet exceeds your body weight, and when you're running, it can be three or four times your weight.
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Your heart will pump about 212 million liters in its lifetime.
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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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