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    Men are twice as likely to be binge drinkers than women.
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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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    Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.
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    There are times when you're walking that the pressure on your feet exceeds your body weight, and when you're running, it can be three or four times your weight.
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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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    If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a tennis court.
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    When you get blackout drunk, you don't actually forget anything; your brain wasn't "recording" in the first place.
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    Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
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