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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| You Are What You Eat | |
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| Does it really take seven years to digest chewing gum? | |
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| Why does your pee smell when you eat asparagus? | |
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| Does sugar really make kids hyperactive? | |
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| What causes an ice cream headache? | |
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| Does eating chocolate cause acne? | |
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| Why do you cry when you cut onions? | |
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| Do cucumbers relieve puffy eyes? | |
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| Why are you served juice and cookies after you donate blood? | |
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| Why do women crave chocolate during their periods? | |
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| Why do you get bloated when you eat salty food? | |
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| What is a food coma? | |
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| Why are you hungry an hour after eating Chinese food? | |
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| What is MSG, and does it cause headaches? | |
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| Can carrots help improve your vision? | |
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| Does coffee stunt your growth? | |
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| Why does skipping your morning coffee cause a headache? | |
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| Why does spicy food make your nose run? | |
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| Does spicy food cause ulcers? | |
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| Does artificial sweetener cause headaches? | |
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| Does licorice cause high blood pressure? | |
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| Body Oddities | |
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| Is it bad to crack your knuckles? | |
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| Why do some folks have an "outie" belly button and some folks have an "innie"? | |
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| What causes morning breath? | |
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| Why are yawns contagious? | |
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| Why do men have nipples? | |
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| Can you lose a contact lens in the back of your head? | |
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| Can you lose a tampon inside your body if the string comes off? | |
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| Is it true that the tongue is the strongest muscle in the body relative to its size? | |
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| Why do your teeth chatter when you are cold? | |
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| Why do you have an appendix if you can live without it? | |
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| Are canker sores contagious? | |
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| What are goose bumps? | |
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| What really is happening when my foot falls asleep? | |
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| Why do you get bags under your eyes when you are tired? | |
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| Why do you laugh when tickled? | |
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| Why does sweat stink and stain? | |
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| What is snot? | |
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| What are eye boogers? | |
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| What are those little half moons in your nails? | |
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| All You (N)ever Wanted to Know about Sex | |
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| Is sperm nutritious? Or fattening? | |
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| Can you get pregnant while you are having your period? | |
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| Do oysters really make you horny? | |
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| Big hands, big-? | |
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| Why do men wake up in the morning with an erection? | |
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| Can people in wheelchairs still have sex? | |
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| Is it true that you can break your penis? | |
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| Does masturbation cause stuttering, blindness, or hairy palms? | |
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| Does using a tampon for the first time make you lose your virginity? | |
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| Why do nipples become erect? | |
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| What causes shrinkage? | |
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| Does circumcision lessen the fun of sex? | |
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| Does the kind of underpants men wear affect their fertility? | |
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| Is there really a G-spot? | |
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| Do Kegel exercises really work? | |
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| Can hot tubs make you infertile? | |
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| Do men need sex more often than women? | |
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| Can a man ever run out of sperm? | |
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| Are there any specific things that affect the scent of a woman? | |
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| Can a woman ejaculate? | |
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| What is a hickey? | |
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| Cani treat it myself? | |
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| Can you take the tetracycline meant for fish tanks? | |
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| Does cranberry juice cure urinary tract infections? | |
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| Will yogurt cure a yeast infection if you put it "inside"? | |
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| Does candle flame remove earwax? | |
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| Is it smart to put butter on a burn? | |
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| Does melatonin work for jet lag? | |
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| Should you put a steak on a black eye? | |
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| Will toothpaste get rid of zits? | |
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| Is it dangerous to pop zits? | |
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| If someone is choking at a dinner party, can you do a tracheostomy with an oyster knife? | |
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| Does urinating on a jellyfish sting stop the burn? | |
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| Why is it bad to insert cotton swabs in your ears? | |
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| Is it dangerous to perform colonic irrigation on yourself? | |
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| Does breast milk cure warts? | |
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| If you get bitten by a snake, should you suck out the venom? | |
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| What are hiccups, and how do you get rid of them? | |
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| Does bathing in tomato juice remove the smell of a skunk? | |
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| Does eating fresh parsley cure bad breath? | |
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| Does warm milk really help you sleep? | |
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| Drugs and Alcohol | |
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| "Beer before liquor, never sicker/Liquor before beer, never fear"? | |
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| Can poppy seeds make you test positive for heroin? | |
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| Why do you get the munchies when you are stoned? | |
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| Can a hair sample be used in a drug test? | |
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| Will a shot of bourbon cure a cold? | |
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| Does putting someone in a shower or giving him or her coffee stop a drug overdose? | |
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| Why do you throw up when you drink too much? | |
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| Does taking Ecstasy cause you to lose your memory? | |
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| Does drinking kill brain cells? | |
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| Why does the bed spin after a long night at the bar? | |
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| Why do you snore so loud when you are drunk? | |
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| Is red wine really good for your health? | |
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| Does marijuana help glaucoma? | |
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| Should you drink brandy when you have frostbite? | |
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| Can you get high from licking a toad? | |
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| Why do people seem more attractive to you when you are drunk? | |
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| Bathroom Humor | |
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| Can you drink your own urine? | |
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| Why can you ignite a fart? | |
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| Why do you get all "pruney" after a long bath? | |
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| Is it more sanitary to be spit on or peed on? | |
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| Why do beans give you gas? | |
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| Would you die if you ate your own feces? | |
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| Will you get hemorrhoids from sitting on the toilet too long? | |
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| Why does poo stink if the food doesn't? | |
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| Why does poo float? | |
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| Why is poo brown? | |
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| Where does gas go when you can't fart? | |
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| If you are stranded on a desert island, should you drink seawater or your own urine? | |
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| Can you catch diseases from a toilet seat? | |
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| Why do I have to go to the bathroom immediately after a cup of coffee? | |
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| Why do cigarettes have a laxative effect? | |
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| Why do you have to pee when you hear water dripping? | |
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| If you stick a sleeping person's hand in warm water, will he or she wet the bed? | |
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| Is it dangerous to hold it when you have to pee? | |
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| What causes the rumbling in your stomach when you have to go? | |
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| Medicine from the Movies and TV | |
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| Is the show ER accurate? | |
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| Does the kind of amnesia you see in the movies really exist? | |
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| What would happen if you stuck someone in the heart with a needle as in Pulp Fiction? | |
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| Why does everyone in the movies go into shock? | |
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| Can people really wake up after being in a coma for years? | |
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| Do you really need to remove a bullet right away like they do in old Westerns? | |
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| Is there really a medication that acts like a truth serum? | |
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| What is on the rags that villains use to make their victims pass out? | |
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| Can you die from choking on your own vomit, like the drummer in Spinal Tap? | |
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| Do people really have multiple personalities, like in Sybil? | |
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| Can you get scared to death? | |
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| Can you drink yourself to death like Nicholas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas? | |
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| Does hysterical blindness really exist? | |
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| What would really happen if a Junior Mint fell inside someone during surgery, as in the infamous Seinfeld episode? | |
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| Is it dangerous to eat another human being? | |
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| How many times can you be shot and still survive? | |
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| Is there such a thing as a werewolf? | |
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| Can you really explode from eating too much? | |
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| Do people ever have webbed hands and feet like the Man from Atlantis? | |
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| Why do you see stars when you are hit in the head? | |
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| What was wrong with the boy in The Boy in the Plastic Bubble? | |
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| Old Wives' Tales | |
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| Is it true that you have to wait a half hour after eating to go swimming? | |
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| Will staring at an eclipse make you go blind? | |
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| Should you starve a fever and feed a cold? | |
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| Does wet or cold weather cause a cold? | |
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| Can you die from chasing Pop Rocks with Coke? | |
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| Can lip balm be addictive? | |
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| Is it true that left-handed people are smarter than right-handed people? | |
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| Will sleeping in front of a fan or an open window cause a stiff neck? | |
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| Do microwaves cause cancer? | |
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| Will using a cell phone give you a brain tumor? | |
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| Will a plate in your head set off a metal detector in the airport? | |
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| Is it dangerous to hold in a sneeze? | |
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| Can you swallow your tongue? | |
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| Getting Older | |
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| Is it true that you lose tastebuds as you get older? | |
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| Why does hair turn gray? | |
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| Why do you shrink as you get older? | |
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| Why do old ladies grow beards? | |
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| Do your ears continue to grow after the rest of your body stops growing? | |
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| Why do you need less sleep when you get older? | |
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| What's up with the ear hair? | |
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| Do your nails or hair grow after you die? | |
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| What are age spots? | |
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| Is life span determined strictly by genetics? | |
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| Can taking vitamin C help you live longer? | |
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| Is there such a thing as male menopause? | |
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| Why are older people such bad drivers? | |
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| Is there really a wrinkle cure? | |
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| Can aluminum cause Alzheimer's? | |