A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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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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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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Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
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Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
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