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Studies have shown that people living within a mile of a golf course are twice as likely to develop Parkinson’s, likely due to pesticide use.

Source: Parkinson.org

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The word deadline was used in the US Civil War for a prison boundary called the dead line that prisoners could not cross without being shot. Later it broadened to mean a time limit for work.

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