Random Human Facts

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    After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
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    Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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    It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
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    Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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    When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
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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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    There are times when you're walking that the pressure on your feet exceeds your body weight, and when you're running, it can be three or four times your weight.
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