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People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
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 average human gut is home to perhaps 500 to 1,000 different species of bacteria.
The ratio of hydrogen atoms to oxygen in water (H2O) is 2:1.
If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.