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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 average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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    Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.
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    Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
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    Putting sugar on a wound or cut will greatly reduce pain and speed up the healing process.
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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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    One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!
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    On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
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