On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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A man once sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than the doctor predicted.
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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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20 minutes after smoking a cigarette, blood pressure drops to normal.
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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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All humans have the ability to see ultraviolet light, but it is passively filtered out by the eye's lens. People who undergo surgery to remove the lens can detect ultraviolet light.
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Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of mucous.
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