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Everyone has one nostril that is larger than the other.
If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
When Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, he called "zero degrees" the lowest temperature he was able to attain with a mixture of ice and salt. For the upper point of his scale, he used 96°, which he measured as normal human body temperature (we know it to be 98.6° today because of more accurate thermometers).
Certain chemicals, after ingestion, can be converted by the body into cyanide. Most of these chemicals have been removed from the market, but some old nail polish remover, solvents, and plastics manufacturing solutions can contain these substances.