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You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching the television.
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Banging your head against a wall will use roughly 150 calories an hour.
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Toothpaste was 'invented' over 4000 years ago, albeit not in the form we
know it - Egyptians used crushed pumice stone and vinegar as a form of paste.
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Romans used urine as tooth cleaner (contains ammonia) and particularly
saught out Portugese product.
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Our nails grow at a rate of around 0.1 mm per day. So it would take roughly
3 months to replace an entire fingernail.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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To humans, acorns are poisonous and if digested can cause kidney damage.
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The velocity of your cough can be up to 60mph.
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Each day we lose anywhere from 10,000 to 100,000 brain cells.
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A study of American currency revealed the presence of bacteria, including
staphylococcus, e-coli, and lebsiella, on 18 percent of coins and 7 percent
of the bills.
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The average adult will stand around 0.5 inches taller in the morning than
in the evning due the slight cartilage compression that happens over the
course of a day.
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Synesthesia is a rare condition where the human senses are combined. Synesthetes
can 'see' words, 'taste' colours and shapes, and 'feel' flavours.
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It is estimated that around 10% of Americans have picked someone else's
nose.
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When you wake up in the morning and find crusty stuff in your eyes, that
is essentially the same as the stuff in your nose.
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On average a person will blink over 10,000 times a day.
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Sneezes can reach up to 100 mph.
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The human brain is about 75% water.
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It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile.
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Each day your heart beats around 100,000 times.
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A beard grows an average of 140mm a year.
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Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
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One out of every three people can’t snap their fingers.
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Human adults breathe about 23,000 times a day.
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There are about 100,000 hairs on the human head.
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In a public bathroom, the stall which is closest to the door is usually
the cleanest, because it's the least used.
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You spend 1/3 of your life in bed.
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An average person will spend two weeks of their life kissing.
