Your taste buds have an average lifespan of 10 days.

Adult taste buds, in general, turn over within eight to 12 days. Taste buds are clusters of polarized sensory cells embedded in the tongue, and the ones that are closer to the surface have a shorter lifespan. That's why, when you burn your tongue, it doesn't take too long until you're able to taste again.

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China buys bottled fresh air from Britain.

British entrepreneur Leo De Watts, 27, has made thousands of dollars selling bottles of British country air to Chinese buyers, but the price alone – £80 ($115) per bottle – could knock the wind out of many customers.

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Dogs line up with earth's magnetic field when they poop. They usually prefer a north-south axis.

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Skipping breakfast causes brain degeneration, because low blood sugar levels leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain.

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There was a Jewish boxer named Salamo Arouch, imprisoned at Auschwitz.

He was forced to fight fellow prisoners. The losers were sent to the gas chambers or shot.

He survived more than 3 years and 200 fights, eventually being released when the camp was liberated. His story was portrayed in the 1989 film 'Triumph of the spirit'.

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It might be hard to see with your naked eye, but everyone you pass by every day is literally glowing.

The human body emits a small quantity of visible light ("visible" in the technical sense—the illumination is about 1,000 times less intense than levels of light that we would actually be able to see).

Researchers in Japan used a special camera to track this glow and found that it fluctuates throughout the day, with the body emitting its lowest levels of light around 10 a.m. and highest at around 4 p.m., a rhythm the scientists attribute to the changes in one's metabolism.

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It is impossible to catch a cold at the North and South Poles.

And you can't get the flu. The reason is obvious: it is so cold at the poles that ordinary viruses simply do not survive there.

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Scientists have created synthetic human embryos using stem cells, in a groundbreaking advance that sidesteps the need for eggs or sperm.

Scientists say these model embryos, which resemble those in the earliest stages of human development, could provide a crucial window on the impact of genetic disorders and the biological causes of recurrent
miscarriage.

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The World record for longest handshake is 43 hours and 35 minutes.

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In 1996, a store manager in California robbed the store, reported the robbery, and then gave a detailed denoscription of the ‘suspect’ to the sketch artist.

When the police pointed out to him that the ‘suspect’ looked exactly like him, the man confessed.

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Coffee was originally discovered in Ethiopia in the 9th century, by a goat herder, who noticed that his goats became more energetic after eating berries from a certain tree.

He tried the berries himself and discovered their stimulating effects.

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A Cyberchondriac is someone who scours the internet looking for details of their illnesses.

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Smiling lessons are now available for people in Japan, following three years of government recommendations that people wear masks.

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