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Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
The average adult has about 21 square feet of skin.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
Once thought to have neurofibromatosis, Joseph Merrick (also known as "the elephant man") is now, in retrospect, thought by clinical experts to have had Proteus syndrome. This endocrine disease causes continued and abnormal growth of the bones, muscles, skin, and so on and can become completely debilitating with severe deformities occurring anywhere on the body.
About 600,000 particles of skin are shed every hour by each human. If you live to age 70 years, you have shed 105 pounds of dead skin.