A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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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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Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
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It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
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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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