Random Body Facts

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    If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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    The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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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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    In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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    All humans have the ability to see ultraviolet light, but it is passively filtered out by the eye's lens. People who undergo surgery to remove the lens can detect ultraviolet light.
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    In 1996, research found that having excessive body hair is linked to higher intelligence.
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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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    There are glasses which allow a red-green color-blind person to see colors the way everyone else does.
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