Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
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It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
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Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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An average heart beats 100,000 times a day, pumping some 2,000 gallons of blood through its chambers. Over a 70-year life span, that adds up to more than 2.5 billion heartbeats.
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Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound - over a thousand feet per second!
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Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body.
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Poor eyesight (myopia) is associated with higher IQ.
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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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