Smokers are twice as likely to develop lower back pain than non-smokers.

Richard Versalle, a tenor performing at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, suffered a heart attack and fell 10 feet from a ladder to the stage just after singing the line "You can only live so long."

Mount Katahdin in Maine is the first place in the U.S. to get sunlight each morning.

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