Random Body Facts

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    When you get goosebumps and your hair stands, the hair helps to trap air, making you feel warmer by keeping in your body heat.
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    The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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    There are glasses which allow a red-green color-blind person to see colors the way everyone else does.
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    Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body.
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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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    In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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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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    It is possible for you to survive even after the removal of the spleen, the stomach, one kidney, one lung, 75% of the liver, 80% of the intestines, and almost every organ from the pelvic and groin area.
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