Random Body Facts

    64 facts tagged with Body Facts

    Held in farts enter your bloodstream and are bad for your body.
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    Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound - over a thousand feet per second!
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    A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
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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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    Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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    Tooth growing out of foot
    Tooth growing out of foot
    In 1977, a 13-year-old boy had a tooth growing out of his left foot.
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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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    The human brain is very soft, having a consistency similar to soft gelatin or firm tofu.
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