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Things you didn't know about yourself:

1. Your skin has four colours.All skin without colouring,would appear creamy white. 2. The world laughs with you.Just lie yawning,laughter is also a social cue for mimicry. 3. Past episodes are remembered faster and better while in a position similar to the pose you struck during the event. 4. Your stomach secretes acid that can even pickle steel,but mucous lining the stomach wall keeps this liquid safely. 5. If calcium is in short supply,hormones will cause your bones to break down,upping calcium levels in the body. 6. Much of a meal is food for thought.Your brain demands 20% of the body's oxygen and calories. 7. The average adolescent girl has 34,000 underdeveloped egg follicles,although only 350 or so mature during her life. 8. Puberty reshapes brain structure.Hormones like testosterone influence development of neurons in the teen brain. 9. Hair-like organelles called cilia in your nose help drain mucus from the naval cavity down to the throat. 10. Long ago,wisdom teet...

Low birth weight causes depression:

During adolescence, girls but not boys may be more likely to develop depression if they were born weighing less than 5.5 pounds, new research suggests. "Parents and pediatricians of girls who were of low birth weight should pay close attention to their mental health as they enter puberty," write researchers in the medical journal,"Archives of General Psychiatry."