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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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    Pain travels through your body at 350 ft. per second.
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    Quick naps not only improve your alertness, but they also help in decision making, creativity and sensory perception.
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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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    When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles.
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    Falling in love raises levels of nerve growth in a person's brain for about a year and can improve their memory.
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    Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.
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    It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
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