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    You mostly breathe from only one nostril at a time!
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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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    The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose.
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    Your spit has a painkiller 6 times stronger than morphine. It contains a substance called opiorphin that is stronger than morphine.
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    The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.
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    There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
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    The brain can stay alive for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen. After that cells begin die.
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    The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
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