Random Body Facts

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    Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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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 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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    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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    Camping Can Help to Reset Body Clock
    Camping can help to reset your body clock, according to research.
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    All humans have the ability to see ultraviolet light, but it is passively filtered out by the eye's lens. People who undergo surgery to remove the lens can detect ultraviolet light.
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    If your liver stopped working, you'd die within 24 hours.
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