Random Body Facts

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    The brain receives 20% of the body’s oxygen and 25% of total body glucose utilization, despite it accounting for only 2% of a person’s weight (about 1.4 kilograms).
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    Singing Health Benefits
    Singing Health Benefits
    Singing exercises your heart, lungs, and releases endorphins which make you feel good.
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    If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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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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    It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
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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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    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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    The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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