Babies crawl an average of 200m a day.
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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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You forget 90% of your dreams.
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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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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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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 man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.
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All 13 minerals necessary for human life can be found in alcohol beverages.
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