Your fingerprints were made by random pressure in the womb.
Identical twins share DNA and still have completely different prints.
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- Roughly 8% of human DNA came from ancient viruses.
- Cells cross the placenta in both directions during pregnancy.
- Across mammals, a lifetime works out at roughly a billion heartbeats whether you are a shrew or an elephant.
- Your heart contains its own small nervous system — tens of thousands of neurons that keep it beating and adjusting after every nerve from the brain has been cut.
- A newborn can breathe and swallow at the same time.
- You almost certainly have mites living on your face.