Iavante English Training Programme

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

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Every person has a unique tongue print

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By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.

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The human neck has the same number of vertebrae as a giraffe’s neck

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At the moment of conception, you spent about half an hour as a single cell.

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The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat

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Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s.The main reason for this is simply that on average women tend to be smaller than men and have less mass to pump blood to. But women’s and men’s hearts can actually act quite differently, especially when experiencing trauma like a heart attack, and many treatments that work for men must be adjusted or changed entirely to work for women.

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The cornea is the only living tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels.

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Throughout the day, the cartilage between your bones is compressed, making you about 1 cm shorter by day’s end.

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The average adult has 100 billion brain cells. We lose 85,000 of these every day! If all our brain cells were laid end-to-end, it would be 200 million miles long. (from here to the Sun and back!)