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    There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
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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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    The chemicals indole and skatole, which help to account for the particular smell of human feces, are used as ingredients in perfume!
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    Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
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    It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
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    The average sperm cell swims at 8 inches per hour.
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    An average adult produces about half a liter of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day.
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