If you stop and consider all the things your body can do, you would be amazed at some of the undercover strengths it has.
Here are 16 incredible facts that will astound you.
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Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents
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An average person produces about 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
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Your body has enough iron in it to make a metal nail 3 inches long.
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The strongest muscle in the human body is the masseter (jaw muscle).
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Your ears and nose never stop growing.
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Similar to fingerprints, everyone also has a Unique Tongue Print.
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When awake, the human brain produces enough electricity to power a small light bulb.
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Human Bones are ounce for ounce, stronger than steel.
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The human eye can distinguish about 10 million different colours.
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If the human eye was a digital camera it would have 576 megapixels.
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Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to.
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Every day, your heart creates enough energy to drive a truck for 20 miles (32 km)
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If uncoiled, the DNA in all the cells in your body would stretch 10 billion miles, from here to Pluto and back
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In a lifetime, your brain’s long-term memory can hold as many as 1 quadrillion (1 million billion) separate bits of information.
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Your heart will pump nearly 1.5 million barrels of blood during your lifetime, enough to fill 200 train tank cars.
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When you take one-step, you are using up to 200 muscles.
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