Random Body Facts

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    Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body.
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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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    There's 100 trillion good bacteria living in your body.
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    Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
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    Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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    The human brain doesn't stop developing until about 25 years old.
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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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    Our Right Lungs takes more air than our left lung.
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