After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
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Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients.
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Men are twice as likely to be binge drinkers than women.
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35,000 people in the U.S. will die from the flu annually.
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Smoking while pregnant increases the chances of spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) stillbirths and premature labor.
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There is a disease called ichthyosis that turns the skin scaly like a fish.
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Midgets and dwarfs almost always have normal sized children.
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