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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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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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body.
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The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.
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An Indian man known as "Snake Manu" can put small snakes, including deadly cobras, into his mouth and pass them out through his nose.
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