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Your body needs sleep. Staying awake for two weeks can be enough to kill you.
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More than 200 types of different organisms live inside or on your body at any time.
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Our eyes are always the same size from the birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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Hair grows all over your body except the palms of your hands, soles of your feet and your lips.
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There is enough iron in the human body to make a nail.
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More than 100 million micro-organisms live in your mouth at any time.
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The acid in your stomach is so strong that it can dissolve steel razor blades!
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The average person loses 200 milliliters (7 fluid ounces) of water a day in their faeces.
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All the bacteria living inside your body would fill six teaspoons.
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Ten billion scales of skin fall of your body every day.
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Adult feet produce about a quarter of a cup of sweat a day from 250,000 pores – wait four days and you could make a cup of foot-sweat tea!
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When a wound gets infected, it oozes yellow pus. Pus is a mixture of dead blood cells, bacteria and other dead cells from your body.
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Most people have mites – very tiny creatures related to spiders– living in their eyelashes, eyebrows, ears and noses.
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About 70 milliliters (around 2.5 fluid ounces) of blood are spurted out of your heart with each beat.
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The palms of the hands are the sweatiest parts of the body, followed by the feet.
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If you don't brush plaque off your teeth, it hardens into a substance called tartar which is like cement and impossible to remove with your toothbrush.
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The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
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Your intestines are about four times your height– they fit because they're all squashed up and coiled around.