Random Body Facts

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    If you are cold you are more likely to be hungry because you use energy to keep warm.
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    Your heart will pump about 212 million liters in its lifetime.
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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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    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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    If every muscle in your body could pull in one direction, you could lift nearly 25 tons.
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    Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
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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 DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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