The hardest substance in your body never grows back

Anecdota
The hardest substance in your body never grows back
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The hardest substance in your body never grows back

Tooth enamel, about 96% mineral, is the hardest tissue in the human body. But the cells that built it disappear once the tooth erupts. Enamel therefore contains no living cells and can't rebuild itself: unlike a broken bone, a chipped tooth won't repair on its own.

NIDCR (NIH)
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Your kidneys filter about 180 liters every day

Every day, your kidneys filter around 180 liters of blood plasma, about a bathtub's worth. Yet you only have about 3 liters of plasma, so it passes through your kidneys some sixty times a day. Over 99% of the filtered water is reabsorbed, leaving just one to two liters of urine.

NIDDK (NIH)
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Your body has more atoms than the observable universe has stars

A 70 kg adult is made of about 7 × 10²⁷ atoms, or seven billion billion billion. The observable universe is thought to hold on the order of 10²² to 10²⁴ stars. Even with the high estimate, you contain thousands of times more atoms than there are stars in the entire visible cosmos.

European Space Agency (ESA)