Random Body Facts

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    If your liver stopped working, you'd die within 24 hours.
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    The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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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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    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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    Camping Can Help to Reset Body Clock
    Camping can help to reset your body clock, according to research.
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    If every muscle in your body could pull in one direction, you could lift nearly 25 tons.
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    Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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    Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
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