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    The average human body contains enough iron to make a small nail.
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    Hypnic Jerk
    Hypnic Jerk
    When you wake up with a jolt, it's called a Hypnic Jerk. This usually happens during the lightest stages of sleep, and can happen as a natural reaction when you fall asleep in a car or airplane.
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    The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.
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    The brain can stay alive for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen. After that cells begin die.
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    From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
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    There is a disease called ichthyosis that turns the skin scaly like a fish.
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    One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!
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    In the average lifetime a person will breath in about 44 pounds of dust.
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