Your muscles turn most of their energy into heat

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Your muscles turn most of their energy into heat
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Your muscles turn most of their energy into heat

A muscle is only about 20 to 25% efficient: the rest of the energy it uses is released as heat. That's why you warm up as soon as you exert yourself, and why your body shivers when it's cold. Those involuntary contractions have a single purpose: generating heat.

Encyclopaedia Britannica
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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)