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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    If your liver stopped working, you'd die within 24 hours.
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    A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
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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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    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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    Camping Can Help to Reset Body Clock
    Camping can help to reset your body clock, according to research.
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    Our Right Lungs takes more air than our left lung.
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    The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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