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    A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.
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    Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
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    Children are poisoned most frequently by eating harmful plants.
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    35,000 people in the U.S. will die from the flu annually.
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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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    On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
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    A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!
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    The average person can live for eleven days without water, assuming an average temperature of 60 degrees fahrenheit.
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