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    A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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    The levels of two stress hormones, cortisol and epinephrine which suppress the body's immune system, will actually drop after a dose of laughter.
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    Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
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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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    If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a tennis court.
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