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    Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body.
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    Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound - over a thousand feet per second!
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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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    Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop.
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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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    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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    There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
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    Redheads require up to 20% more anesthesia to be knocked out.
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