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    The human brain is more active during sleep than during the day.
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    Drinking watermelon juice before a workout helps reduce muscle soreness.
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    It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
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    Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
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    Children are poisoned most frequently by eating harmful plants.
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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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    Flu shots only work about 70% of the time.
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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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