The human brain is very soft, having a consistency similar to soft gelatin or firm tofu.
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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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Women have about four times as many foot problems as men; lifelong patterns of wearing high heels often are the culprit.
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Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
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Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop.
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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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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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