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Your body builds roughly 330 billion new cells every single day

By BeckhamLangford

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Nerve signals can race through your body faster than 250 miles per hour

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Your stomach grows a fresh inner lining every few days so its own acid cannot digest it

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If you uncoiled the DNA in one cell, it would stretch about two meters

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An octopus can taste whatever it touches through the suckers on its arms

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Your body holds more bacterial cells than human ones

By BeckhamLangford

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A sea squirt pulled from Antarctic waters carries a bacterium that kills melanoma cells

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The ocean produces more than half of the oxygen you breathe

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A deep-ocean expedition off Brazil turned up two dozen new creatures in the sea’s darkest layer

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DNA from eight teeth in a Polish cave reconstructed one of Europe’s oldest Neanderthal families

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The flesh-eating screwworm turned up in a Texas calf, the first U.S. case this outbreak

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A baby’s brain may be shaped before birth by its genes and gut microbes together

By BeckhamLangford

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A deep-ocean expedition off Brazil turned up two dozen new creatures in the sea’s darkest layer

By BeckhamLangford

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Your body builds about 330 billion new cells every single day

By BeckhamLangford

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Human bone is, ounce for ounce, stronger than steel yet far lighter

By BeckhamLangford

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A teaspoon of soil holds more microbes than there are people on Earth

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An octopus has blue blood, carrying oxygen with copper instead of iron

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Honey never truly spoils, even after thousands of years sealed inside a tomb

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Your nose can recognize roughly a trillion distinct smells

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Your body’s blood vessels would stretch about 60,000 miles end to end

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