In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
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The world's shortest man measures only 21.5 inches.
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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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Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 6,000 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost.
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Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
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Only humans shed emotional tears.
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Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
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