Random Body Facts

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    You can hear the blood flowing through your ears if you find a quiet place and cover them tightly.
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    In one day, adult lungs move about 10,000 litres of air.
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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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    Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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    There's 100 trillion good bacteria living in your body.
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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 your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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    Your heart will pump about 212 million liters in its lifetime.
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