35,000 people in the U.S. will die from the flu annually.
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Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second!
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Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound - over a thousand feet per second!
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Children are poisoned most frequently by eating harmful plants.
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Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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The human brain doesn't stop developing until about 25 years old.
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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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