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1. Diabulimia is an eating disorder whereby people with diabetes skip insulin injections to lose weight.
2. Velcro is a contraction of the French words 'velours' (velvet) and 'crochet' (hook).
3. The white beads I keep finding on my face (cheek, eyelid and now a third one on my forehead) are milia, trapped skin cells that become walled off into tiny cysts that appear like white beads below the surface of the skin. But I do exfoliate!
4. Double-clicking on any word in a New York Times online article (but not the homepage) opens a pop-up window containing a reference search on the word powered by Answers.com and NY Times-branded.
5. People often wrongly use the term OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder, which symptoms include the need to repeatedly perform ritualistic actions) when in fact they mean OCPD (obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, a tendency to stress perfectionism above all else, and feeling anxiety when things are perceived not to be "right".)
6. Zipf's law describes data where a few elements score very high, a medium number of elements have medium-sized scores, and a huge number of elements score very low. Words in a natural language, popularity of library books and web use follow a zipfian distribution pattern.
7. People with 100+ moles on their skin live longer. I will bury you all then.

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