| 25% of your bones are located in your feet. |
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| 40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by Americans. |
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| 99% of people cannot lick their elbow. |
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| A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9. |
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| A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks! |
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| A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever. |
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| A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner. |
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| A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement. |
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| A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour. |
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| A woman's sense of smell is most sensitive during ovulation. |
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| About 400 different kinds of microbes live on and in the human body. |
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| According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women. |
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| All babies are color blind when they are born. |
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| All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee. |
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| At age 70, more than 70 percent of men are still potent! |
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| Babies are born without knee caps. |
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| Babies start dreaming even before they're born. |
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| Babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed. |
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| Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old. |
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| Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. |
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| Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive. |
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| Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem. |
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| By the age of 60, most people have lost 50% of their taste buds. |
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| Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year. |
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| Contrary to popular belief, hair does not grow back darker and thicker after it has been shaved. |
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| Deep Breathing gives you health benefits similar to aerobics. |
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| During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times. |
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| During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair. |
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| During menstruation, the sensitivity of a woman's middle finger is reduced. |
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| Each nostril of a human being register smell in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left. |
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| Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced. |
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| Every three seconds, a new baby is born. |
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| Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie! |
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| Females learn to talk earlier, use sentences earlier, and learn to read more quickly than males. |
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| Fingernails grow fastest on the hand you favor. |
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| Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails! |
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| Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair. |
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| From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size. |
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| Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones. |
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| Girls have more tastebuds than boys. |
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| Half of all Americans over the age of 55 have no teeth. |
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| Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks! |
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| Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete! |
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| Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year! |
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| Identical twins do not have identical fingerprints. |
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| If you cut a 'V' shape into your toe nails, you can prevent 'in-grown' toe nails. |
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| If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board. |
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| If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a tennis court. |
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| If you?re over 100 years old, there?s an 80% chance you?re a woman. |
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| If you?re typical, you can guess someone?s sex with 95% accuracy just by smelling their breath. |
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| If your skin is laid flat it will cover an area of 18 square feet. |
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| If your stomach didn't produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks, it would digest itself. |
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| In one day an average person will take about 18,000 steps. |
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| In the average lifetime a person will breath in about 44 pounds of dust. |
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| Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do. |
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| Ingrown toenails are hereditary. |
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| It is now possible to print human skin with an inkjet printer! |
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| It takes 17 muscles to smile, 43 to frown. |
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| Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different! |
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| Males sweat 40% more than females. |
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| Medical studies show that intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair. |
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| Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes. |
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| Neanderthal man had a brain capcity 100cc larger than modern man's. |
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| On average women can hear better than men. |
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| One in 500 humans has one blue eye and one brown eye. |
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| One out of 20 people have an extra rib. |
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| One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet! |
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| One quarter of the human brain is used to control the eyes. |
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| Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory. |
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| Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second! |
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| People with blue eyes are better able to see in the dark. |
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| Perspiration is odorless; it is the bacteria on the skin that creates an odor. |
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| Research indicates that babies who suck on pacifiers are more prone to ear aches. |
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| Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab! |
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| Take your height and divide by eight. That?s how ?tall? your head is. |
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| The 7-Eleven Extreme Gulp is 50% bigger than the volume of the human stomach! |
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| The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose. |
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| The average female will have 3.3 pregnancies in her life. |
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| The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap. |
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| The average human body contains enough iron to make a small nail. |
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| The average person can live for eleven days without water, assuming an average temperature of 60 degrees fahrenheit. |
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| The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. |
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| The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year! |
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| The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man. |
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| The average tastebud lives only 10 days before it dies and is replaced by a new one. |
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| The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking. |
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| The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime! |
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| The human brain is insensitive to pain. |
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| The lense of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life. |
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| The right lung takes in more air than the left. |
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| The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. |
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| The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes. |
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| The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body. |
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| There are 206 bones in the human body! |
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| There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. |
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| Unlike dogs, pigs, and some other mammals, humans cannot taste water. They taste only the chemicals and impurities in the water. |
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| Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this. |
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| We blink 25 times a minute. |
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| When you correct for weight differences, men are proportionately stronger than horses. |
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| When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight. |
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| When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too. |
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| While 7 men in 100 have some form of color blindness, only 1 woman in 1,000 suffers from it. |
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| Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone. |
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| Women blink nearly twice as much as men. |
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| Women have a slightly higher average IQ than men. |
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| Womens' hearts beat faster than mens'. |
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| World?s heaviest primates: morbidly obese humans. After that: gorillas at 485 lbs. |
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| You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening! |
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| You have no sense of smell when you're sleeping! |
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| You mostly breathe from only one nostril at a time! |
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| you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206! |
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| Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second! |
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| Your hair grows faster in the morning than at any other time of day. |
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| Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day! |
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| Your heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood each day! |
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| Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn. |
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| Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe! |
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| Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink. |
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| Your skin is actually an organ. |
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