Facts 11-20, human body

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11. People use 200 muscles when they walk.

12. Two million red blood cells die every second.

13. Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for about 180,000 deaths per year.

14. Sailors once thought that wearing a gold earring would improve their eyesight. (Lol)

15. It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.

16. The most frequent season for most suicides to occur is in the spring. The winter months have the lowest number of suicides.

17. Hair and fingernails are made from the same substance, keratin.

18. The most common injury caused by cosmetics is to the eye by a mascara wand.

19. People with darker skin will not wrinkle as fast as people with lighter skin.(no racism)

20. Many cancer patients that are treated with chemotherapy lose their hair. For some when the hair grows back, it can grow back a different colour, or be curly or straight.

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