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Medical researchers contend that no disease ever identified has been completely eradicated.

The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

The number one cause of blindness in the United States is diabetes.

The adult human heart weighs about ten ounces.

Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.

Of the 206 bones in the average human adult's body, 106 are in the hands and feet. (54 in the hands and 52 in the feet)

In 1815 French chemist Michael Eugene Chevreul realized the first link between diabetes and sugar metabolism when he discovered that the urine of a diabetic was identical to grape sugar.

Men have more blood than women. Men have 1.5 gallons for men versus 0.875 gallons for women.

The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.

It takes an interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.

Hemophiliacs are only males. It is carried by females, but they don't exhibit symptoms.

The average Human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.

Your thumb is the same length as your nose.

The substance that human blood resembles most closely in terms of chemical composition is sea water.

One in 5.5 million men in the United States have two penises