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10 interesting things about chicken eggs
The average hens lay up to 270 eggs per year, while each egg needs about 24 hours to form in the chicken.
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The truth about the 'standard body' of the ancient gladiator
Is the gladiator image with a standard body shape and 6-pack abs appearing only on movies?
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Cause nails grow faster than toenails
Nails grow faster than toenails because they are more likely to be hit and receive more nutrients because they are located near the heart.
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Flies sit on us just to ... vomit and poop?
A very simple and common question: What do flies do when perching on us?
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Men believe eating meat helps more masculine
Scientists at Bellarmine University (USA) have found that men feel they are more masculine when eating meat.
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The relationship between personality and human lifestyle
A team of scientists at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economics and Social Studies (Australia) explores the diet and exercise habits of more than 7,000 people and c…
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Superstitious people often live unhealthy
A study in Australia showed that people who believe in fate often live unhealthy as those who only believe in their own abilities.
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Discover the meal of the ancient people
Scientists have compared the teeth of 58 people living in different eras from the 11th to the 19th centuries in Spain and the ancient Inuit fossil teeth living in Alaska…
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When did we become addicted to salt?
Children who are fed foods such as bread and cereals during breakfast like a meal that tastes better than those who don't.
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Your baby develops the sense of smell through the way she eats
The baby's olfactory system is naturally formed through what mothers eat and drink during pregnancy.
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Diets change the demand for freshwater in Asia
Scientists say switching to a high-protein, Western-like diet of Asians may lead to frequent food shortages for the region that is suffering from this fresh water pressu…
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Eating less nutritious food makes fatty cockroaches more
Cockroaches are small enough to wriggle through the smallest openings, but like humans these persistent animals can get fat if they have an unhealthy diet.
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The scent of your body
Your body has a characteristic smell, just like your fingerprints. That scent will still exist even if you change your diet.
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The diet of pregnant women increases the risk of asthma in children
Pregnant maternal mice have a diet rich in methyl-containing additives, such as folic acid, and pups will have more respiratory allergies than mice with maternal mice th…
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Not always optimistic is the medicine for health
People are generally optimistic, they believe in the future they will do better in the past. We may exercise, or diet or save money to buy a house. However, prejudice ab…