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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One human hair can support 3 ounces.
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Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
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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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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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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
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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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