Random Body Facts

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    An average heart beats 100,000 times a day, pumping some 2,000 gallons of blood through its chambers. Over a 70-year life span, that adds up to more than 2.5 billion heartbeats.
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    A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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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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    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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    Singing Health Benefits
    Singing Health Benefits
    Singing exercises your heart, lungs, and releases endorphins which make you feel good.
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    Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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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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    It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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