Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.
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‘Old people smell’ is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin
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The first man to swim the length of Great Britain grew a beard to stop jellyfish stinging his face.
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You can only remember 4 things at a time.
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Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water.
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90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.
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It took 200,000 years for humans to reach 3 billion in number. It took 40 years for the next 3 billion.
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Babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed.
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