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    Obsessive nose picking is called Rhinotillexomania.
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    Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
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    Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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    Man Lost 50-75% of His Brain to Water on the Brain, Lived Normally
    A 44-year-old man lost around 50%-75% of his brain to hydrocephalus (water on the brain) and continued to live a normal life. Specialists believe the fluid filled so slowly over his life that the brain remapped itself to retain functionality despite the loss of mass.
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    Tap water in Canada is held to a higher health standard than bottled water.
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    There is a family with a genetic condition that makes their skin blue, who have been isolated in rural Kentucky for generations.
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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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    The record for the longest scientifically documented period without sleep is 264.4 hours (eleven days).
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