If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.
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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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A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
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Children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats!
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Cigarette smoke contains 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which cause cancer.
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When you get blackout drunk, you don't actually forget anything; your brain wasn't "recording" in the first place.
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Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself.
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Ernest Hemingway survived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, a fractured skull, and more.
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