Random Body Facts

    64 facts tagged with Body Facts

    Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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    Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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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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    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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    Some monks can increase their body temperature so much they can dry soaking sheets in a freezing room!
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    Our Right Lungs takes more air than our left lung.
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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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    There's 100 trillion good bacteria living in your body.
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