Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body.
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An average heart beats 100,000 times a day, pumping some 2,000 gallons of blood through its chambers. Over a 70-year life span, that adds up to more than 2.5 billion heartbeats.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
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A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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The human brain is very soft, having a consistency similar to soft gelatin or firm tofu.
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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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