The human brain is insensitive to pain.
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20 minutes after smoking a cigarette, blood pressure drops to normal.
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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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Foreign accent syndrome is a rare brain disorder which causes people to speak in a foreign accent involuntarily.
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Laughing could dramatically improve your health – and be as good for you as a deep state of meditation, researchers have found.
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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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When you look up at the blue sky and see white dots flying around, you’re actually seeing your own white blood cells.
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