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Are human fetal cells used to produce Pepsi?
A friend just came over and apparently Pepsi is made from people.
Or, more specifically:
The aborted human fetal cell line is known as “HEK-293,” and it is used to see how the human palate will react ...
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Is drinking a cold drink and drinking hot soup unhealthy in any way?
At least around here, in Costa Rica, it is common practice to avoid drinking cold drinks while drinking hot soup. I never questioned this (but didn't really care about it). Apparently it is, well, bad ...
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Is drinking tea after a meal unhealthy?
There is a popular belief that drinking tea shortly after meal can cause health problems and is also dangerous to anemic people.
Drinking tea just after a meal restricts the body's absorption of ...
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Does Red Bull contain as much energy as 10 coffees?
You often hear people saying Red Bull contains a lot more energy than an ordinary coffee. Specifically I heard mention a few times that Red Bull contains 10 times the amount of energy than an ordinary ...
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Does drinking water prevent dehydration?
The UK newspaper the Daily Telegraph has reported that the European Union won't permit claims that drinking water will prevent dehydration, saying that there's no evidence supporting the claim.
Is ...
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Can Sunny D turn you yellow?
A friend of mine was drinking a bottle of Sunny D today, and we got talking about the stories of people that had been turned "yellow" from drinking too much - I thought that it was just something made ...
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Does drinking milk and orange juice together cause digestion problems?
I was once having a milky coffee at a cafe and I ordered an orange juice.
The waiter told me that I should wait until I've finished my coffee, because drinking milk and orange juice together causes ...
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