Random Human Facts

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    Atacama Skeleton
    Atacama Skeleton
    In 2003, the skeletal remains of a human that measured 6 inches in length were found in a Chilean ghost town. A definite explanation for its size, mutations, and origin has yet to be found.
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    If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.
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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 eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
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    Tigers can see 6 times better at night than humans.
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    You can't tickle yourself.
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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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    We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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