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7 Nov 2009

One US study has shown that centenarians managed stress better than their contemporaries who died earlier.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.

People are born with about 9000 taste buds, but only have about half of them left in old age.

In Kentucky it is illegal for a woman to "appear in a bathing suit on any highway unless she be escorted by at least two officers or unless she be armed with a club." Exempted are females weighing less than 90 pounds or exceeding 200 pounds, and female horses.

Blood is about 78% water.

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