If your stomach didn't produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks, it would digest itself.
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‘Fracture putty’ is a material being developed that when packed in & around a bone fracture, provides full load bearing strength within days.
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It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress Cardiomyopathy.
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A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
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Flu shots only work about 70% of the time.
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If you stop working out, it takes twice as long to lose strength than it took to gain it.
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If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.
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Unlike dogs, pigs, and some other mammals, humans cannot taste water. They taste only the chemicals and impurities in the water.
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