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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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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It took 200,000 years for humans to reach 3 billion in number. It took 40 years for the next 3 billion.
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Obsessive nose picking is called Rhinotillexomania.
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Cats have a weak sense of taste. They have only 473 tastebuds, humans have 9,000.
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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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Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
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Your heart will pump about 212 million liters in its lifetime.
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