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-There are nine muscles in your ear.
-The navel divides the body of a newborn baby into two equal parts.
-If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he
died.
-Experts say the human body has 60,000 miles of blood vessels.
-The tongue is the only muscle attached at one end.
-Fetuses can hiccup.
-Your brain uses 40% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream.
-Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the
liver than men with hair.
-The longest recorded bout of hiccups lasted for 65 years.
-The longest recorded sneezing fit lasted 978 days.
-Your stomach has 35 million digestive glands.
-At the moment of conception, you spent about half an hour as a single cell.
-There is about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
-Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square
inch.
-There are no two tongue prints that are alike.
-Your body contains about four ounces of salt.
-Injured fingernails grow faster than uninjured ones.
-Women blink twice as much as men.
-It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
-The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
-When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dialate, they do the
same when you are looking at someone you hate.
-It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it
did to gain it.
-The three things pregnant women dream most of during their first trimester
are 1) frogs 2) worms 3) potted plants.
-Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of
water to a boil.
-If they were laid end to end, the blood vessels in your body would wrap
around the equator three times.
-Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people.
-Bone is stronger, inch for inch, than the steel in skyscrapers.
-About one third of the human race has 20-20 vision.
-In a hot climate, you can sweat as much as 3 gallons of water a day.
-Fingernails are made from the same substance as a bird's beak.
-A runner consumes about 7 quarts of oxygen while running a 100-yard dash.
-The enamel in your teeth is the hardest substance in your body.
-Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born.
-Your big toes have two bones each while the rest have three.
-A pair of human feet contain 250,000 sweat glands.
-Living brain cells are bright pink.
-You're ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.
-Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
-If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
-Your body contains the same amount of iron as an iron nail.
-The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.
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