Your fingernails grow faster in summer.
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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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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
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The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
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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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The human sigh acts as a physiological reset button.
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