You’re basically an Avenger.
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1. The human heart, ripped from a chest cavity ala Indiana Jones can indeed continue to beat for a short period of time because it has it's own electrical system and would continue to receive oxygen from the exposed air.
2. Stomach acid is so strong that your body grows an entire new one every 3-4 days.
3. The human nose can recognize and remember 50,000 unique scents, which is still no where near as powerful as a dog's.
4. You sneeze at the speed of 100 miles per hour or more.
5. You have 60,000 miles of blood vessels inside of you, which is enough to wrap around the Earth's equator roughly two and half times.
6. Everyday your heart creates enough energy to drive a truck for 20 miles. In a lifetime, your heart creates enough energy to drive that truck to the moon and back.
7. On average a human sheds so much skin in a lifetime that by the time you turn 70, you'll have removed an entire small human, 105 lbs, from yourself.
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8. If you look into a clear night sky and can see Andromeda, it means your eyes are so sensitive and powerful that they're picking up a small fuzzy blob of light that, as our closest neighboring galaxy, is 2.5 million light years away.
9. It's possible to snore at 80 decibels which is equivalent to sleeping next to a pneumatic drill breaking up concrete. Noise levels over 85 decibels are considered hazardous to the human ear.
10. A person produces enough spit in a lifetime to fill two swimming pools, roughly 25,000 quarts.
11. You are made up of 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (that's 7 octillion) atoms.
12. And every single one of those 7 octillion atoms is billions of years old.
13. Neurons fire at the speed of 150 miles per hour.
14. In addition to the five senses, you actually have an extra meta-sense called proprioception which combines your brain's knowledge of what your muscles are doing with a feel for the size and shape of your body so you can where the parts of your body are with respect to each other. It's how you can close your eyes still touch your nose unerringly.
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