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    Cigarette smoke contains 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which cause cancer.
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    Stress and Reading
    Stress and Reading
    Researchers have found that reading reduces stress by 68%, more than listening to music or taking a walk.
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    Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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    Vicks inhalers can cause you to test positive for Meth on drug tests.
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    We blink 25 times a minute.
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    Salt Mine Hospital
    Salt Mine Hospital
    In Ukraine, there's a thousand-foot-deep salt mine that is used to treat respiratory ailments. Inside, there is substantially less bacteria in the air than in the most sterile room in a hospital.
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    From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
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    During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.
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