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If you sneeze hard enough, you can fracture a rib. But try to suppress a sneeze and you might rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck. Watching TV for more than 2 hours a day can shorten your life expectancy by 1.4 year. If you watch TV for six hours daily, you might die 5 years earlier than you would naturally. Many shampoos, soaps, hair dyes and other cosmetic products contain carcinogens that can cause cancer. An average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet Golf clubs can be deadly. An angry golfer flung his club at a bench. The shaft broke and sprung back, piercing his heart. The same thing has been recorded to happen to at least 3 more people. When threatened, swans can be very aggressive. They have been known to capsize boats, attack humans on jet skis, and strangle dogs to death. One pound of peanut butter can contain up to 150 bug fragments and 5 rodent hairs A lit candle causes more than 15,000 house fires every year. ...

Sinkhole swallows car and family has to be rescued in Peru

Young family swallowed by enormous sinkhole that opened up beneath their car A young family had to be saved after a gigantic sinkhole opened up beneath them and swallowed the car they were sitting in. Video footage of the rescue shows the car lying almost vertically in the chasm, as passersby help a man and woman climb out of the driver's side door. Three people, Edgar Orlando Bartolo Silva, 34, Marisol Mercedes Gutierrez Siccha. 31 and their two-year-old daughter escaped unhurt, Sol TV reported. A crane was later used to extract the car from the five metre wide hole. The incident happened on Thursday in Trujillo, in northwestern Peru. It is believed the sinkhole was a result of the heavy rain that has battered the city in recent days, causing flooding and school closures.

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Our hearing is so sensitive that it can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different sounds. The longest boxing match ever known took place in New orleans in 1893. It lasted 7 hours 19 minutes and ended in draw. Too much secretion of growth hormone in children makes their body excessively large, resulting in giantism. The human heart beats approximately 100,000 times a day. A liver cell is specialised enough to perform more than 500 operations at a time A person weighing 60kg has 5 litres of blood in his body. Our heart pumps about 43000 litres of blood per day.

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