A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
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A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.
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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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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 person will create enough saliva to fill two average size swimming pools during his lifetime.
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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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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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Having sex can make a woman look younger and more attractive due to the release of estrogen and collagen.
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