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    The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
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    Brain scans show that people who view photos of a beloved experience an activation of the caudate - the part of the brain involving cravings.
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    Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.
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    You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day.
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    Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
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    Foreign accent syndrome is a rare brain disorder which causes people to speak in a foreign accent involuntarily.
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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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    Dieters who sleep more take off more fat that those who sleep less.
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