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Your blood vessels, laid end to end, would stretch about 60,000 miles.
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood up to 30 feet.
Humans are the only animals that cry emotional tears.
The average person's skin weighs about 8 pounds and covers about 22 square feet.
Your body generates enough heat in 30 minutes to boil half a gallon of water.
The brain itself feels no pain — it has no pain receptors, which is why brain surgery can be performed on conscious patients.
The human body contains about 37 trillion cells.
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.
The human eye blinks about 15 to 20 times per minute — roughly 10 million times a year.
Human hair grows about six inches per year and each strand lives for two to seven years.
The strongest muscle in the human body relative to its size is the masseter — the jaw muscle.
Your body produces about a liter of mucus every day — most of it you swallow.
The left lung is slightly smaller than the right to make room for the heart.
Humans shed about 30,000 to 40,000 dead skin cells every hour.
The average human brain has about 86 billion neurons.
Your pupils dilate up to 45% when you look at someone you love.
The human body contains enough carbon to make about 9,000 pencils.
Glass is technically an amorphous solid, not a liquid — old windows appear thicker at the bottom because of manufacturing, not flow.
Apples belong to the rose family, along with pears, plums, cherries, and peaches.
The Sahara desert was a green savanna as recently as 5,000 years ago.
Sleep deprivation produces symptoms nearly identical to being drunk — 24 hours without sleep is comparable to a 0.10% blood alcohol level.
Multitasking is largely a myth — the brain rapidly switches between tasks rather than doing them simultaneously.
The brain is more creative when tired because the prefrontal cortex is less active, reducing inhibitions on unusual thinking.
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born the same year — 1929.
Ancient Greeks and Romans believed the brain was a cooling organ for the blood — Aristotle thought the heart was the seat of intelligence.
Ancient Romans used crushed mouse brains as toothpaste.
The Great Wall of China took over 2,000 years to build, constructed in sections by different dynasties.
The cosmic microwave background radiation — the afterglow of the Big Bang — is still detectable today, 13.8 billion years later.
If you removed all the empty space from atoms in the human body, all of humanity would fit in a sugar cube.
Light from the Sun takes about 8 minutes to reach Earth, but took 100,000 years to travel from the Sun's core to its surface.
Platypuses don't have stomachs — food goes straight from the esophagus to the intestine.
Parrots can understand abstract concepts like zero and have shown problem-solving abilities on par with five-year-old children.
Axolotls can regenerate entire limbs, hearts, and parts of their brains.
Horned lizards can shoot blood from their eyes as a defense mechanism — up to five feet.
Octopuses have three hearts, nine brains (one central and one in each arm), and blue blood.
The blue whale's heart is so large a human could crawl through its arteries.
A snail can sleep for up to three years during drought conditions.
The average person produces enough saliva in a lifetime to fill two swimming pools.
Teeth are the only part of the human body that cannot repair themselves.
The human nose can distinguish over one trillion different scents.
Your ears never stop working, even when you're asleep — your brain just filters the sounds out.
Blood makes up about 7% of a person's body weight.
Goosebumps are a vestigial reflex — in our hairier ancestors, they made fur stand up to appear larger or stay warm.
The human heart beats about 100,000 times per day and around 2.5 billion times in a lifetime.
Your bones are roughly five times stronger than steel by weight.
The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades.
Your body makes about 25 million new cells every second.
The small intestine is about 20 feet long despite being called 'small' — the name refers to its width.
A human sneeze travels at around 100 miles per hour and can send 100,000 germs into the air.
The cornea of the eye has no blood vessels — it gets oxygen directly from the air.