The liver is the only organ that has the ability to regenerate itself after certain types of damage. As much as 25% of the liver can be removed, and it will still regenerate back to its original shape and size. However, the liver cannot regenerate after severe damage caused by alcohol.
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The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.
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There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
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