By weight, Bone is five times stronger than steel.
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A human brain produces as many as 12,000 to 50,000 thoughts per day, depending on how deep a thinker a person is.
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Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
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The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
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Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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