Random Body Facts

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    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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    The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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    The human body contains over a billion miles of DNA.
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    After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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    Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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    If your liver stopped working, you'd die within 24 hours.
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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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    The human brain is very soft, having a consistency similar to soft gelatin or firm tofu.
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