The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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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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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
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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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If every muscle in your body could pull in one direction, you could lift nearly 25 tons.
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