Chew bread long enough and it starts to taste sweet

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Chew bread long enough and it starts to taste sweet
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Chew bread long enough and it starts to taste sweet

You produce around 0.5 to 1.5 liters of saliva a day. It contains an enzyme, amylase, that starts chopping starch into sugars right in your mouth. Slowly chew a piece of bread or rice for a minute and you'll notice it turning slightly sweet. Digestion has already begun.

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)