The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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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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Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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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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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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