Random Body Facts

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    Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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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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    If your liver stopped working, you'd die within 24 hours.
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    A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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    You see your nose at all times, your brain just chooses to ignore it.
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    There are times when you're walking that the pressure on your feet exceeds your body weight, and when you're running, it can be three or four times your weight.
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    The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.
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    In one day, adult lungs move about 10,000 litres of air.
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