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Before we go, here’s your random trivia of the day:

You know how sometimes as you’re falling asleep, your body will suddenly twitch or jerk? There are several theories on why this happens. But according to the National Sleep Foundation it occurs because your brain misinterprets your muscles relaxing as a sign that you’re falling. In order to protect you, it alerts your muscles to tense up – thus, that twitch.

This phenomenon is also responsible for that occasional feeling of falling as you drift asleep.

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