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Today you learn about how researchers discover that your lungs actually make blood,

how you can tell the temperature from cricket chirps, and a strategy

for maximizing your focus and achieving your goals that comes from billionaire business magnate

Warren Buffett.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

When you think about lungs, you think about breathing.

That's not wrong, but that's definitely not the whole story.

Scientists discovered in March 2017 that lungs also play a huge role in, surprise, making blood.

And this new information could be hugely beneficial for the way we treat blood diseases.

Researchers from UC San Francisco published findings in nature that

showed that your lungs play an important role in blood production. In studies

scientists saw the lungs of mice making a whole lot of blood platelets as in about 10 million per hour

platelets are the cells that circulate within our blood and bind together to clot and stop bleeding

when we get cut. That 10 million per hour number

means the lungs make the majority of the platelets in the circulation in mice.

This shatters our decades long belief that bone marrow makes all of our blood components.

One of the studies researchers put it this way, quote,

what we've observed here in mice strongly suggests the lung may play a key role in blood formation in humans as well."

Real talk though, you'd think we would have figured this out by now, right? Well, this

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