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    On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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    Your wounds heal faster if you lick them, you instinctively do this for that reason. Tears help, too.
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    Men get hiccups more often than women.
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    Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
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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 heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime!
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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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    According to one report, it would take 800 marijuana joints to kill a person - but the cause of death would be carbon monoxide poisoning.
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