Fact

You are taller in the morning

By around a centimetre, and it is gone by evening.

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Spinal discs absorb fluid overnight while you are horizontal and compress under load through the day, so most people lose roughly one to two centimetres of height between waking and bedtime. Astronauts in prolonged weightlessness gain several centimetres, and lose it again on return.

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