Random Fascinating Facts

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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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    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 aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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    Some monks can increase their body temperature so much they can dry soaking sheets in a freezing room!
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    The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing!
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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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    A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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    Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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