Random Things I Just Learned

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• You can hiccup while asleep. 
• Elephants kiss. 
• Holding your hands up on a rollercoaster stretches the torso, enhancing the physical sensations.
• A broken heart is known as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and it can be cured.
• Five trees make an orchard.
• An outbreak of swine flu in 1976 killed one person but a vaccine to combat it killed 25.
• You're as likely to be hit by lightning as killed by a mentally ill person.
• Banana skins can take two years to biodegrade.
• French babies cry with an accent.

From 100 Things We Didn't Know Last Year