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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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Tens of trillions of neutrinos from the Sun pass through your body every second, and you never feel them. They interact so weakly with matter that most slip through Earth as if it were empty space.

The first ever text message in history was ‘Merry Christmas’, sent in 1992 by Neil Papworth to a colleague at Vodafone.

Research has found that putting a smiley face emoji on a bill can bolster the average restaurant server’s tip by 11%.

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Nobel laureate Tu Youyou discovered the malaria drug 'artemisinin' after reading a 1,600-year-old Chinese medical text and realising the herb had to be extracted cold, not boiled. That insight paved the way for a treatment estimated to have saved tens of millions of lives.

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