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It is believed that the Incas used anesthesia. Evidence supports the theory that shamans chewed cocoa leaves and drilled holes into the heads of patients (letting evil spirits escape), spitting into the wounds they made. The mixture of cocaine, saliva, and resin numbed the site enough to allow hours of drilling.
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There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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Eat fiber! A diet high in fiber can help lower cholesterol levels by as much as 10%.
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Eating food that has been cooked with poppy seeds may cause you to fail a drug screening test, because the seeds contain enough opiate alkaloids to register as a positive.
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The average human gut is home to perhaps 500 to 1,000 different species of bacteria.