Random Body Facts

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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 are glasses which allow a red-green color-blind person to see colors the way everyone else does.
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    There are about 1,400 different species of bacteria in your belly button.
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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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    One human hair can support 3 ounces.
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    Your heart will pump about 212 million liters in its lifetime.
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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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    Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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