On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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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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Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 6,000 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost.
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If Earth's life was compressed into 1 year, then humans would have been around for only 2 seconds.
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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Having sex can make a woman look younger and more attractive due to the release of estrogen and collagen.
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