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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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    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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    Flu shots only work about 70% of the time.
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    The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.
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    More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
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    An average heart beats 100,000 times a day, pumping some 2,000 gallons of blood through its chambers. Over a 70-year life span, that adds up to more than 2.5 billion heartbeats.
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    Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
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    In 1996, research found that having excessive body hair is linked to higher intelligence.
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