Have you ever stopped and wondered about weird things, such as how long a blood cell takes to travel around the human body and how many germs are transferred when shaking hands? Read the weird medica

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l facts below – they might answer your questions.

• One in every 1000 babies is born with a tooth.
• A person will die from lack of sleep sooner than they will from starvation, which usually takes a few weeks.
• Eighty percent of people infected with the Ebola virus, will die from this disease.
• DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Friedrich Mieschler.
• Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
• There are approximately 96,000 km of blood vessels in the human body.
• If the lining of mucus were to disappear from your stomach, your stomach would digest itself.
• Each person sheds 22 kilograms of skin in his or her lifetime.
• More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
• A salmon-rich, low-cholesterol diet means that the Inuits very rarely suffer from heart disease.
• Your heart beats 100 000 times a day.
• A foetus only acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
• Guys are more likely than girls (by a ratio of 3-to-2) to have bad acne.
• We share 98.4% of our DNA with a chimp - and 70% with a slug.
• Human foetuses react to loud rock music by kicking.
• At just 12 weeks the human foetus can scowl and squint.

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