When you get goosebumps and your hair stands, the hair helps to trap air, making you feel warmer by keeping in your body heat.
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Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your food begin to eat you.
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The levels of two stress hormones, cortisol and epinephrine which suppress the body's immune system, will actually drop after a dose of laughter.
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In one day, adult lungs move about 10,000 litres of air.
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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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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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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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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