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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Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop.
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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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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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If you are cold you are more likely to be hungry because you use energy to keep warm.
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The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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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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