Random Body Facts

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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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    Camping Can Help to Reset Body Clock
    Camping can help to reset your body clock, according to research.
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    For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt.
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    The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.
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    An average heart beats 100,000 times a day, pumping some 2,000 gallons of blood through its chambers. Over a 70-year life span, that adds up to more than 2.5 billion heartbeats.
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    If you are cold you are more likely to be hungry because you use energy to keep warm.
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    If your liver stopped working, you'd die within 24 hours.
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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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