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    Crying literally alleviates stress and uniquely allows humans to decrease feelings of anger and sadness.
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    By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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    Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your food begin to eat you.
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    Women buy four out of every 10 condoms sold.
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    There is a disease called ichthyosis that turns the skin scaly like a fish.
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    Your spit has a painkiller 6 times stronger than morphine. It contains a substance called opiorphin that is stronger than morphine.
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    Salt Mine Hospital
    Salt Mine Hospital
    In Ukraine, there's a thousand-foot-deep salt mine that is used to treat respiratory ailments. Inside, there is substantially less bacteria in the air than in the most sterile room in a hospital.
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    More people have a phobia of frogs than rats.
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