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    Pain travels through your body at 350 ft. per second.
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    Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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    Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
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    There is a disease called ichthyosis that turns the skin scaly like a fish.
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    Crushed cockroaches can be applied to a stinging wound to help relieve the pain.
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    Cigarette smoke contains 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which cause cancer.
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    Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.
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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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