Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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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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After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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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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It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
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