Random Body Facts

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    There are about 1,400 different species of bacteria in your belly button.
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    Some monks can increase their body temperature so much they can dry soaking sheets in a freezing room!
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    In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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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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    The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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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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    Our Right Lungs takes more air than our left lung.
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    The levels of two stress hormones, cortisol and epinephrine which suppress the body's immune system, will actually drop after a dose of laughter.
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