Random Body Facts

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    Tooth growing out of foot
    Tooth growing out of foot
    In 1977, a 13-year-old boy had a tooth growing out of his left foot.
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    One human hair can support 3 ounces.
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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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    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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    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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    Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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    The human body contains over a billion miles of DNA.
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    If your liver stopped working, you'd die within 24 hours.
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