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    The levels of two stress hormones, cortisol and epinephrine which suppress the body's immune system, will actually drop after a dose of laughter.
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    If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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    Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
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    After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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    If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a tennis court.
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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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    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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