Facts in "Medical" Category
#2589 - Medical Fact  1
The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay.
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#2591 - Medical Fact  8
The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
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#2593 - Medical Fact  2
Between the ages of 30 and 70, you nose may lengthen and widen by as much as half an inch.
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#2594 - Medical Fact  1
The sense of touch: electrical impulses travel from the skin toward the spinal cord at a rate of up to 425 feet per second.
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#2595 - Medical Fact  7
You blink every 2-10 seconds. As you focus on each word in this sentence, your eyes swing back and forth 100 times a second, and every second; the retina performs 10 billion computer-like calculations.
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#2596 - Medical Fact  1
Each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissues 75,000 times before returning to the bone marrow to die.
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#2597 - Medical Fact  3
The average square inch of skin holds 650 sweat glands, 20 blood vessels, 60,000 melanocytes, and during the summer months, six or seven mosquito bites.
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#2598 - Medical Fact  5
If you squeezed out all of the bacteria from your intestines, you could almost fill up a coffee mug.
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