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The largest living thing is an Oregon honey fungus spanning over three square miles

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Astronauts aboard the space station are 3D-printing human cartilage in orbit to test whether weightlessness can grow replacement tissue better than Earth can

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Your stomach regrows its inner lining every few days so acid cannot digest it

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Your body is built from roughly 37 trillion cells, and nearly every one carries the same DNA

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The human eye can spot a single candle flame from about 1.6 miles away

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Some bristlecone pines are over 4,800 years old, older than the pyramids of Egypt

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The blood vessels in your body would stretch about 60,000 miles if uncoiled

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Bone is stronger than steel pound for pound, yet far lighter

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Your nose can recognize and remember about a trillion distinct smells

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Tardigrades can survive being frozen, boiled, dried out, and even left exposed to space

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A single gram of healthy soil can hold billions of living microbes

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A hummingbird’s heart can beat more than 1,200 times a minute while it hovers

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The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve metal

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An octopus has three hearts, and two of them stop beating whenever it swims

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The human body makes about 2 million new red blood cells every single second

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Your body makes roughly 2 million new red blood cells every second

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Some Arctic fish survive freezing water by making natural antifreeze proteins in their blood

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Bacteria in and on your body roughly match the number of your own cells

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Your sense of smell can distinguish well over a trillion different odors

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An octopus keeps about two-thirds of its neurons in its arms, not its brain

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