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Interesting Factoids
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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
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It is safer to be in a car during a thunderstorm than a house. If lightening strikes a car it goes through the tires to the ground.
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Lightening strikes somewhere on earth about 6,000 times a minute
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Ophthalmic surgery was one of the most advanced areas of medicine in the ancient world. Detailed descriptions of delicate cataract surgery with sophisticated needle syringes is contained in the medical writings of Celsus (A.D.14-37)
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