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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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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The human sigh acts as a physiological reset button.
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The levels of two stress hormones, cortisol and epinephrine which suppress the body's immune system, will actually drop after a dose of laughter.
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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