Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
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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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If Earth's life was compressed into 1 year, then humans would have been around for only 2 seconds.
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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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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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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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The average sperm cell swims at 8 inches per hour.
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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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