You swallow 1 to 2 cups of mucus every day.

“When a 300-year-old statue of Jesus from Mexico was restored, it was discovered that the statue had real human teeth inside its “mouth.”

Your heart pumps with so much pressure that your blood could squirt 10 meters (32 feet) high out of your body.

“The combined length of your intestines and stomach (more than 25 feet) would be long enough for you to use to easily rappel from the third floor.”

“During the First and Second World War, fingers were used for reconstructing noses. The patients got a new nose but lost a finger in return.”

In Sardinia, there is a kind of sheep’s cheese that includes maggots as its main ingredient.

On average, you secrete 26 gallons of sweat into your bed per year.

A mortsafe is a cage designed to protect the coffin and the dead from grave robbers.

Leonarda Cianciulli was a notorious Italian serial killer who made candy and soap out of her victims.

There are over 250,000 deaths a year due to medical error.

Thomas Hargrove, a homicide archivist, estimates that there are over 2,000 serial killers at large right now.

Botflies are a type of insect whose larvae burrow under your skin.

And a brain aneurysm ruptures about once every 18 minutes.

Some moths drink human blood.

The average bed has between 100,000 and 10 million dust mites.