 INTERESTING FACTIODS:
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50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with :new cells, all while you have been reading this sentence. |
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Among the first known "dentists" of the world were the Etruscans. In 700 BC they carved false teeth from the teeth of various :mammals :and produced partial bridgework good enough to eat with. |
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A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h. |
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About 25% of all American married women are older than their husbands. |
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Alcohol slows the body's ability to burn fat. That's why beer drinkers develop a large stomach. |
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Animals are good at predicting the weather. Frogs croak when the air pressure falls. Before rain, ants move to higher ground and sheep's wool curls. |
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Children who live with smokers are more than twice as likely to develop lung cancer later in life than children of non-smoking parents. |
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Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels. Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 :miles per hour. |
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Every two thousand frowns :creates one wrinkle. |
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If you were freeze-dried, 10% of your body weight would be from the microorganisms on your body. According to the World Health Organization, there are :approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day. |
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In 1 square inch of skin there lies 4 yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels. |
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In one hour, your heart works hard enough to produce the equivalent energy to raise almost 1 ton of weight 1 yard off the ground. |
