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TIL Medical doctor Donald Unger cracked the knuckles of his left hand every day for sixty years, but he did not crack the knuckles of his right hand. No arthritis or other ailments formed in either hand, and he was awarded 2009’s Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine

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