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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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    Men get hiccups more often than women.
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    10 seconds is the amount of time until unconsciousness after the loss of blood supply to the brain.
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    20 minutes after smoking a cigarette, blood pressure drops to normal.
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    Poor eyesight (myopia) is associated with higher IQ.
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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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    A man once sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than the doctor predicted.
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    If your stomach didn't produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks, it would digest itself.
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