Random Body Facts

    64 facts tagged with Body Facts

    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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    There are glasses which allow a red-green color-blind person to see colors the way everyone else does.
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    In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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    Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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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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    You see your nose at all times, your brain just chooses to ignore it.
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    Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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    Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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