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The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same as the length of your foot.
On average, people can hold their breath for one minute. The world record is seven-and-a-half minutes.
On average, you speak almost 5,000 words a day - although almost 80% of speaking is self-talk (talking to yourself).
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
Men loose about 40 hairs a day. Women loose about 70 hairs a day.
A person remains conscious for eight seconds after being decapitated.
The first human sex change took place in 1950 when Danish doctor Christian Hamburger operated on New Yorker George Jargensen, who became Christine Jargensen.
Unless food is mixed with saliva you cannot taste it.
On average a hiccup lasts 5 minutes.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
We actually do not see with our eyes - we see with our brains. The eyes basically are the cameras of the brain. One-quarter of the brain is used to control the eyes.
Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, suggested that a woman could enlarge her bust line by singing loudly and often.
The muscle that lets your eye blink is the fastest muscle in your body. It allows you to blink 5 times a second. On average, you blink 15 000 times a day. Women blink twice as much as men.

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