When you get goosebumps and your hair stands, the hair helps to trap air, making you feel warmer by keeping in your body heat.
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The human body contains over a billion miles of DNA.
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Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop.
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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