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    Salt Mine Hospital
    Salt Mine Hospital
    In Ukraine, there's a thousand-foot-deep salt mine that is used to treat respiratory ailments. Inside, there is substantially less bacteria in the air than in the most sterile room in a hospital.
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    Smokers get ten times more wrinkles than non-smokers.
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    About 400 different kinds of microbes live on and in the human body.
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    Fingernails grow fastest on the hand you favor.
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    Hypnic Jerk
    Hypnic Jerk
    When you wake up with a jolt, it's called a Hypnic Jerk. This usually happens during the lightest stages of sleep, and can happen as a natural reaction when you fall asleep in a car or airplane.
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    It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
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    In older people, memory is best early in the morning and then declines during the late afternoon.
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    Flu shots only work about 70% of the time.
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