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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    It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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    Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
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    If your liver stopped working, you'd die within 24 hours.
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    The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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    Held in farts enter your bloodstream and are bad for your body.
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    The average sperm cell swims at 8 inches per hour.
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