Random Body Facts

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    If your liver stopped working, you'd die within 24 hours.
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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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    Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
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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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    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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    The average sperm cell swims at 8 inches per hour.
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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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    If every muscle in your body could pull in one direction, you could lift nearly 25 tons.
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