Random Body Facts

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    The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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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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    If every muscle in your body could pull in one direction, you could lift nearly 25 tons.
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    In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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    The levels of two stress hormones, cortisol and epinephrine which suppress the body's immune system, will actually drop after a dose of laughter.
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    If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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    Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
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    Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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