Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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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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In one day, adult lungs move about 10,000 litres of air.
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You forget 90% of your dreams.
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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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It is possible for you to survive even after the removal of the spleen, the stomach, one kidney, one lung, 75% of the liver, 80% of the intestines, and almost every organ from the pelvic and groin area.
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Babies crawl an average of 200m a day.
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