Random Body Facts

    64 facts tagged with Body Facts

    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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    It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
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    The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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    Held in farts enter your bloodstream and are bad for your 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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    There's 100 trillion good bacteria living in your body.
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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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    Our Right Lungs takes more air than our left lung.
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