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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    You see your nose at all times, your brain just chooses to ignore it.
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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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    An Indian man known as "Snake Manu" can put small snakes, including deadly cobras, into his mouth and pass them out through his nose.
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    For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt.
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    If your liver stopped working, you'd die within 24 hours.
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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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    The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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