Random Body Facts

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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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    One human hair can support 3 ounces.
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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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    Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your food begin to eat you.
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    A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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    It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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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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    There are glasses which allow a red-green color-blind person to see colors the way everyone else does.
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