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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).
The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
Everyone has one nostril that is larger than the other.
There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.