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Along with heart-beating, breathing is the most important life-sustaining function of the human body.  Every day, the average healthy person inhales and exhales about twenty-two thousand times, processing up to eight and a half cubic meters of air. 
          
 
 Breath and breathing also appear in many idioms such as “not breathe a word”, “to breathe a new life into something” and “breathing fire”, like in the sentence: “The head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church was breathing fire over Madonna’s gig in Sofia.”
           It is explicable that the Patriarch is seething with indignation at …

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The Curious Side of Life in Brief
People consume 255 eggs a year on average. The chicken lays around 250 eggs for the same time period.
The average person utters 225 words per minute and 5000 words a day. About 80 percent of these words remain in our heads.
People may suffer brain damages if the body`s temperature exceeds 42 degrees C.
Knee caps are not present in babies and small children. The caps develop when kids reach two to six years of age.
Police dogs have foreign language training. They respond to commands in …