Your body is a wonderland. A horrifying, beautiful wonderland.
Your heart can keep beating outside of your body.
TransMedics has developed a system to keep donor hearts pumping blood while it's transported, and it is amazing.
Speaking of your heart, it pumps with enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet across a room.
There are mites living in your eyelashes.
They're called Demodex, and they embed their heads into your hair follicles.
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The average adult has ten times more bacteria than human cells living in their body.
(In other words, 90% of the cells in our body don't even belong to us.)
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