Random Body Facts

    64 facts tagged with Body Facts

    Some monks can increase their body temperature so much they can dry soaking sheets in a freezing room!
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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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    After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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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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    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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    Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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    There's 100 trillion good bacteria living in your body.
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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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