Quick naps not only improve your alertness, but they also help in decision making, creativity and sensory perception.
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Cracking your knuckles does not actually hurt your bones or cause arthritis. The sound you hear is just gas bubbles bursting.
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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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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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An Indian man known as "Snake Manu" can put small snakes, including deadly cobras, into his mouth and pass them out through his nose.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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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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When you get goosebumps and your hair stands, the hair helps to trap air, making you feel warmer by keeping in your body heat.
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