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16 May 2008
A survey conducted at Iowa State College in 1969 suggests that a parent's stress at the time of conception plays a major role in determining a baby's sex. The child tends to be of the same sex as the parent who is under less stress.
Few people survive if more then 70% of the body surface is affected by full thickness burns. But medical advances mean that survival is more likely now - although victims will be horribly scarred and in need of plastic surgery.
Eating raw onions is good for unblocking a stuffed nose.
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
An analysis of more than 2 million cuttings from all the main British national and regional daily newspapers found that there are 15 times more items of bad news than those of good news.
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