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    One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!
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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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    Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of mucous.
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    The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime!
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    The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
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    A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
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    While 7 men in 100 have some form of color blindness, only 1 woman in 1,000 suffers from it.
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    The average female will have 3.3 pregnancies in her life.
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