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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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    In the average lifetime a person will breath in about 44 pounds of dust.
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    One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!
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    If your stomach didn't produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks, it would digest itself.
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    Your wounds heal faster if you lick them, you instinctively do this for that reason. Tears help, too.
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    The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.
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    Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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    There's 100 trillion good bacteria living in your body.
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