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At primary school, Tina would discover that pupils were required to use German and not one word of other languages, on pain of punishment, a policy that so enraged the Slovenian community that it published a long tract of protest.

With no pressurization, pockets of gas in a man's intestinal tract could swell like balloons and cause him to double over in pain.

A female bird makes the bulk of the egg inside her reproductive tract long before mating with a male.

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