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    Brain freeze is caused by the brain sensing the drop of temperature on your palate and increasing blood pressure in an attempt to save you from freezing.
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    If you are cold you are more likely to be hungry because you use energy to keep warm.
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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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    ‘Fracture putty’ is a material being developed that when packed in & around a bone fracture, provides full load bearing strength within days.
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    It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress Cardiomyopathy.
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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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    Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body.
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    Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
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