When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go.
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Some people have a "natural alarm clock" allowing them to wake up when they want. This is actually caused by a burst of the stress hormone adrenocorticotropin.
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A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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You can alleviate a tickly throat by scratching your ear.
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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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Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
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The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
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35,000 people in the U.S. will die from the flu annually.
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