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    The average human body contains enough iron to make a small nail.
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    If you are cold you are more likely to be hungry because you use energy to keep warm.
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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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    You mostly breathe from only one nostril at a time!
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    Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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    If your liver stopped working, you'd die within 24 hours.
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    Pain travels through your body at 350 ft. per second.
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    Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second!
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