Sunlight
Jun 18 2009, Jeremy Taylor

Filed under: Happy Hour Hero, Health Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Stepping into the sunlight, or any sudden burst of light, causes up to 35 percent of people to sneeze. The “photic sneeze reflex” happens because the trigemina

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