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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    The human body contains over a billion miles of DNA.
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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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    Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
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    Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your food begin to eat you.
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    If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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    A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
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