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    Oenophobia is the Fear of wines.
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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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    A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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    From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
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    A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.
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    Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
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    Laughing could dramatically improve your health – and be as good for you as a deep state of meditation, researchers have found.
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    Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.
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