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1. During pregnancy, the baby in womb can help repair a mother’s organ damage by giving its stem cells. In Biology, it’s a form of chimerism called the Fetomaternal microchimerism (FMc). Alternatively, this is a survival mechanism by which the fetus ensures maternal fitness in order to enhance its own chances of survival.

2. Some humans have a total of 207 bones instead of 206. The Fabella is a tiny sesamoid bone in the knee that has been making a come back in recent years. At present, around 39% of the population have the extra fabella bone, which is three times more in 100 years, compared to only 11% of world population having it in 1918. Scientists theorize, this emergence is due to increased nutrition and humans getting taller and heavier.

3. A newborn baby has only one cup (0.2 liters) of blood in the whole body, whereas, the healthy adult has about 1.3 to 1.6 gallons or 4.0 to 5.0 litres of blood circulating inside their body.

4. Lungs are the only organ in the human body that can float on water. In fact, medical examiners use the “lung float test” during autopsies to determine if a baby was stillborn (died in the womb). If the lungs float, the baby was born alive; if the lungs don’t float, the baby was stillborn.

5. Speaking about lungs, did you know that you can live with just one lung? Patients with lung cancer, can still live healthily even after a lung is removed, retaining at least 70% of their previous respiratory function. Surprisingly, the remaining lung will expand to fill the empty space of the other lung in the chest.

6. If you pulled out the blood vessels from an an average child and laid out in one single line, it would stretch to over 60,000 miles. The entire circumference of the earth at it’s largest is 24,900 miles.

7. Your eyes blink over ten million times a year!

8. The entire surface of your skin is replaced every month, which put another way means you have about 1,000 different skins in your life.

9. Next time you’re wounded, and can’t find a bandage, just ask the friendly spider next wall. Spiderwebs/cobwebs have natural antiseptic and anti-fungal properties, and were used in ancient Greece and Rome by physicians to make bandages. They’re also thought to be rich in Vitamin K. 

10. While you’re sleeping, your ears continue to function. They will pick up sounds, but your brain acts as a filter and blocks out the unimportant ones.

11. More humans are evolving to have three arteries in their arms. The Median artery which is present during the early human embryonic stage is later replaced by the ulnar and radial artery during developmental changes. However new research shows that median artery is now prevalent in about 35% of the population and researchers predict that people born 80 years from now might all carry a median artery. This is an example of Micro-evolutionary changes that are occurring in the human body.

 

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White chocolate is not chocolate

Don't be fooled by the name of white chocolate. It doesn't contain any chocolate. It's actually just a mixture of sugar, milk, vanilla, lecithin and cocoa butter.

Nutmeg is a hallucinogen

If you take a lot of nutmeg, it works like a psychedelic because it contains a natural compound called "myxorubicin.". If taken in large doses, it can have a mind altering effect. It is also poisonous in large doses.

There is no difference between the wax on the surface of fruit candy and that on the car

The luster of fruit fudge comes from the palm wax of Brazil, which is actually the same type of wax used in cars. I don't know what you think about this!

Ketchup was once used as medicine

As early as 1800, people believed that tomatoes had medicinal value. Doctors at the time claimed that ketchup could treat diarrhea and indigestion, so it was once used as a pill.

Biscuits are more harmful to your teeth than sugar

Acid is the biggest cause of tooth decay, not sugar! Biscuits tend to stick to your teeth and eventually become a hotbed of bacteria.

Drink more wine in the bar, not because it is good, but because the music is loud

Studies have shown that the volume of music can change people's drinking habits. Loud music seems to make people drink more and faster.

The validity period of bottled water has nothing to do with water

Water doesn't expire, but bottles do. Plastic bottles will leak chemical particles into the water over time. Although it will not make the water harmful, it will reduce the freshness of the water.

 Honey is actually the vomit of bees

When bees collect nectar, they take nectar and keep it in their stomachs. Once back in the hive, the nectar is expelled back into the hive.

Sweet drinks can cause dementia

Studies have shown that people who drink one or more artificial sweetened drink a day are three times more likely to develop dementia than others.

 

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1. North Korea is the only country that do not sell Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola cannot be bought or sold in Cuba due to the long-term US trade embargo since 1962. Cuba was actually one of the first 3 countries outside the US to bottle Coke in 1906 but the company moved out as Fidel Castro's government began seizing private assets in the 1960s & has never returned

2. The entire world’s population could fit inside Los Angeles standing shoulder to shoulder.

3. The world’s hottest pepper could kill you.

4. The Canary Islands are named after Dogs.

5. The longest place name in the world is 85 letters long.

6. Four babies are born every second.

7. The coldest temperature ever recorded was -144°F(-98°C).

8. The current amount of people who are alive represents only 7% of those who have ever lived.

9. California is home to the Artichoke Capital in the world.

10. The world’s largest man-made oyster reef was created in Maryland.

 

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