Random Body Facts

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    You can hear the blood flowing through your ears if you find a quiet place and cover them tightly.
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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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    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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    Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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    Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human 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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    If every muscle in your body could pull in one direction, you could lift nearly 25 tons.
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    Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your food begin to eat you.
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