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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    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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    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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    Our Right Lungs takes more air than our left lung.
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    You can hear the blood flowing through your ears if you find a quiet place and cover them tightly.
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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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    If you hold farts in during the day, they'll just come out when you sleep.
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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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