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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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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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
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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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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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The average sperm cell swims at 8 inches per hour.
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Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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