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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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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Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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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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Every year your body replaces 98% of your atoms.
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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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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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The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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