Quick naps not only improve your alertness, but they also help in decision making, creativity and sensory perception.
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The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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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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Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
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For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt.
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Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
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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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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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