Category Archives: Health

Oct 24 2016
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Animals, Health, People

Fact #1217: Licking a wound is an instinctive response in humans and many other animals. This is because saliva contains a substance that promotes blood clotting and the enzyme lysozyme, which attacks the cell walls of bacteria, to guard against infection.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wound_licking

Oct 21 2016
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Health, History

Fact #1214: During prohibition in the U.S., an exemption was made for whiskey prescribed by a doctor and sold through a pharmacy. The Walgreens pharmacy chain grew from 20 retail stores to almost 500 during this period, from 1920 to 1933.

Source: http://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-should-know-about-prohibition

Oct 15 2016
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Health, History

Fact #1210: The 1918 flu pandemic is often called the Spanish flu because Spain didn’t fake and minimise the data about the dead like Germany, Britain, France and the USA.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

Oct 14 2016
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Food, Health

Fact #1209: There are blue bandaids that have metal in them so that they can be found by a metal detector if they fall off a worker in the food preparation industry.

Source: https://www.uline.com/BL_6721/Metal-Detectable-Bandages

Jan 19 2016
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Health, Natural World

Fact #1019: Fidgeting (such as tapping your feet or drumming your fingers) can burn up to 350 calories a day and is a common trait of lean/skinny individuals.

Source: https://www.fitnessblender.com/articles/how-many-calories-does-fidgeting-burn-fidgeting-for-weight-loss

Dec 29 2015
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Health, Music

Fact #1005: ‘Annie’, from the Michael Jackson song ‘Smooth Criminal’, is based on the name of the mannequin commonly used in CPR training.

Trainees are taught to say “Annie, are you OK?” to the dummy in order to check that the patient is conscious and responsive.

Source: http://www.feelnumb.com/2015/01/08/what-does-annie-are-you-ok-from-michael-jacksons-smooth-criminal-mean/

Jan 30 2015
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Consumer, Health

Fact #786: Store brand health supplements have been found to often contain none of the herbal supplements claimed on the label.

Since store brands in general outsell brand names 3-to-1, it indicates 75% of supplement sales are store brand, and in a recent test, 19 out of 24 store brand supplements tested were not what they claimed. This suggests that almost 60% of store brand supplements purchased are “fake”.

 

Jan 23 2015
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Health, Irony, People

Fact #781: A Greek veteran, Stamatis Moraitis, was diagnosed with cancer and was told he only had 6 months to live. 10 years later, he went back to doctors to tell them he was still alive, only to discover that all of the doctors who had diagnosed him were dead.

Source: http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013/02/05/ikaria-man102-dies-36-years-after-cancer-diagnosis/

Jan 05 2015
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Health, History

Fact #758: Strokes are thought to have got their name because people once believed that victims had been struck down by God.

Source: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JSWs8s2ltGUC&pg=PA332&lpg=PA332#v=onepage&q&f=false

Apr 17 2013
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Health

Fact #337: There is a boy named Kaleb Bussenschutt who is allergic to all food, except water and a certain brand of lemonade.

Source: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/medical-mystery-of-kaleb-bussenschutt-who-cannot-eat/story-e6frfkp9-1225755385456

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