Fun Facts
Your fingernails grow four times as fast as your toenails?
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People are the only animals in the world who cry tears?
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It's totally impossible to sneeze with your eyes open?
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Every month you grow a brand new outer layer of skin..."a new you"?
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Your brain weighs about three pounds, but over two pounds of that is water?
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In your very own lifetime, you'll produce enough spit to fill two swimming pools?
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If you were freeze dried, like coffee, 90% of your weight would be the real you, and 10% would be the little critters that call your body their home?
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You breathe in about 7 quarts of air every minute? Good thing it's free!
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Your dad sweats enough each day to fill up a 6 pack of soda cans...and then some?
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By the time your grandmother is 72 years old, her heart will have chalked up over two-and-a-half BILLION beats!
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Your stomach makes a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks. Otherwise, it will digest itself.
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Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
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To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs...it will let go instantly. Hey, you never know...
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps blood, that it could squirt blood 30 feet.
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On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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Relative to its size, the strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
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You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
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Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
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Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
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Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
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In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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If you blink one eye you move over 200 muscles.
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The rush of air produced by a cough moves at a speed approaching 600 miles per hour.
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The liver performs over 500 different functions.
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Platelets are manufactured at the rate of 200 billion a day.
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You will be totally unable to lick your elbow, and I just know you're going to try.
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The length of your foot is the same as that of your forearm between your wrist and the inside of your elbow? You're probably thinking "no way", but give it a try...you'll be amazed!