Children are poisoned most frequently by eating harmful plants.
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Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop.
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You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
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Falling in love raises levels of nerve growth in a person's brain for about a year and can improve their memory.
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Ernest Hemingway survived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, a fractured skull, and more.
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20 minutes after smoking a cigarette, blood pressure drops to normal.
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35,000 people in the U.S. will die from the flu annually.
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The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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