Interesting Facts About Your Body (10 pics)

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Dreaming in colour
has shown that the type of tv you watch can affect how you see your dreams. The study revealed that people who grew up watching monochrome televisions typically have very dull and monochrome dreams. Alternatively, people who watch bright coloured televisions often dream in bright colours.

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The body attempts to help you to prevent drowning
In a process known as the diving reflex, the body will realize that you are underwater (or at least your head is) will start to slow your heart rate and send blood to your vital organs in order to help conserve oxygen. The deeper you go, the slower your heart rate will be.

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Baby strength
Babies happen to have incredible strength for their size and age. For the first three months of their lives, babies are able to grasp onto things with their palms with a grip that could hold their own body weight for a considerable amount of time. This ability is said to have been inherited from our ancestors.

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You have a LOT of blood vessels.
100,000 miles. That is the amount of blood vessels your average adult has when laid out in a straight line. That is enough to go around the equator 2.5 times. Our heart pumps about 5.7 million litres of blood throughout our lives. That’s 3 Olympic-sized pools.

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Our muscles can lift a lot more than we realize
You’ve heard all of the stories in which someone was able to save someone’s life by lifting a car or some other incredibly heavy object, right? Well, in some instances this can actually happen- adrenaline can allow our muscles to lift a ton of weight. In fact, the actual physical limit of the 640 muscles in the human body are truly unknown.

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We produce a lot of… liquids
On average, an adult produces about 1.5 liters of snot and 1 liter of saliva per day. What do you think it is that we’re swallowing every few seconds without really thinking about it? We also produce 3 liters of stomach juices, 1 liter of bile and 3.5 liters of intestinal juice.