The world's smallest winged insect is the Tanzanian parasitic wasp. It's smaller than the eye of a housefly.

In one day, adult lungs move about 10,000 litres of air.

The first human heart transplant happened on December 3, 1967. Unfortunately the patient only lived for eighteen days, succumbing in the end to pneumonia.

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