Random Body Facts

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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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    Held in farts enter your bloodstream and are bad for your body.
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    There are times when you're walking that the pressure on your feet exceeds your body weight, and when you're running, it can be three or four times your weight.
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    The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.
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    If you hold farts in during the day, they'll just come out when you sleep.
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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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    The human body contains over a billion miles of DNA.
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    Our Right Lungs takes more air than our left lung.
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