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    Sitting straight upright in your chair is bad for your back. You should instead slouch at an angle of 135 degrees.
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    One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!
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    An average heart beats 100,000 times a day, pumping some 2,000 gallons of blood through its chambers. Over a 70-year life span, that adds up to more than 2.5 billion heartbeats.
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    There are glasses which allow a red-green color-blind person to see colors the way everyone else does.
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    It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
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    Motorists who talk on cell phones are more impaired than drunk drivers with blood-alcohol levels exceeding .08!
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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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    There are 206 bones in the human body!
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