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    Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn.
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    Some people have a "natural alarm clock" allowing them to wake up when they want. This is actually caused by a burst of the stress hormone adrenocorticotropin.
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    More people have a phobia of frogs than rats.
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    Salt Mine Hospital
    Salt Mine Hospital
    In Ukraine, there's a thousand-foot-deep salt mine that is used to treat respiratory ailments. Inside, there is substantially less bacteria in the air than in the most sterile room in a hospital.
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    From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
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    Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
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    It is possible to go blind from smoking too heavily.
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    Pain travels through your body at 350 ft. per second.
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