Brain freeze is caused by the brain sensing the drop of temperature on your palate and increasing blood pressure in an attempt to save you from freezing.
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You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
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Kissing an infection-free partner is good for your teeth!
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From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
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The chemicals indole and skatole, which help to account for the particular smell of human feces, are used as ingredients in perfume!
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The average person can live for eleven days without water, assuming an average temperature of 60 degrees fahrenheit.
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When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go.
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Ernest Hemingway survived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, a fractured skull, and more.
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