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    Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
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    It takes 17 muscles to smile, 43 to frown.
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    After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
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    Smoking while pregnant increases the chances of spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) stillbirths and premature labor.
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    Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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