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- Just imagining a workout can make you stronger (Nautilus)
- Uncle Sam goes for gold, too: Up to $9,900 per Olympic gold medal (USA Today)
- After rejection, your brain performs this subtle trick to help you make friends (The British Psychological Society Research Digest)
- The rules about how to address the U.S. flag came about because no one wanted to look like a Nazi (Smithsonian Magazine)
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