Your liver can regrow after losing two-thirds of itself

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Your liver can regrow after losing two-thirds of itself
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Your liver can regrow after losing two-thirds of itself

No other internal organ regenerates quite like the liver. Even after about two-thirds of it is surgically removed, the remaining cells start dividing again and it regains its original size within weeks to months. That's what allows a living donor to give part of their liver to a patient in need.

Johns Hopkins Medicine
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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)