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    If your stomach didn't produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks, it would digest itself.
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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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    Smoking while pregnant increases the chances of spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) stillbirths and premature labor.
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    It is possible for you to survive even after the removal of the spleen, the stomach, one kidney, one lung, 75% of the liver, 80% of the intestines, and almost every organ from the pelvic and groin area.
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    If you cut a 'V' shape into your toe nails, you can prevent 'in-grown' toe nails.
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    When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go.
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