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Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.
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Urine turns bright yellow if larger than normal amounts of certain substances are consumed; one of these substances is asparagus.
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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.
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In 1864, the first barbiturate (barbituric acid) was synthesized.
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The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.