All humans have the ability to see ultraviolet light, but it is passively filtered out by the eye's lens. People who undergo surgery to remove the lens can detect ultraviolet light.
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When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go.
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Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
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You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
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A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour.
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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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When you get blackout drunk, you don't actually forget anything; your brain wasn't "recording" in the first place.
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