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Did you know that the human heart pumps about 182 million liters of blood throughout your whole lifetime? (99 Quick and Fascinating Facts) The human body is full of mysteries that most of the world doesn't know about. Your body does very strange things that you would never think could happen, while others are totally believable. This paper is about three of those facts that I found interesting and unbelievable myself.
Lightning can give you skin designs? Who would have thought! The designs that lighting gives you actually has a scientific term which is Lichtenberg figures. Lichtenberg figures are branching electric discharges that sometimes appear on the surface or in the interior of insulating materials. They are often associated with

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