A recent study showed that taxi and ambulance drivers have a lower risk of death from Alzheimer’s disease compared to more than 400 other professions. That could be because they’re constantly using navigational and spatial processing.  Those on-the-fly decisions may protect the drivers’ cognitive abilities.  But it might NOT translate to Uber drivers . . . because the older drivers in the study mostly worked before GPS systems were widely used.

An old wives’ tale says a pregnant woman with heartburn is more likely to have a hairy baby.  A study in 2006 tried to disprove it . . . but actually proved it TRUE.  Heartburn and hairy babies are both linked to a woman’s estrogen levels.

There are only two documented cases in history of coyotes killing humans.

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