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There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.
The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
The average adult has about 21 square feet of skin.
Dogs have been used in studies to detect various cancers in human subjects. They have been trained to sniff breath samples from humans that were collected by having them breathe into special tubes. These people included 55 lung cancer patients, 31 breast cancer patients, and 83 cancer-free patients. The dogs detected 54 of the 55 lung cancer patients as having cancer, detected 28 of the 31 breast cancer patients, and gave only three false-positive results (detecting cancer in people who didn't have it).

