A: No. Elephants are the only other creature with a body part similar to the chin, but it is caused by a lack of lower teeth and a big lower lip. It's not the bony protrusion characteristic of a real chin.

Medical Myths

Sinking into an icy tub after a hard workout seems like a good, albeit chilly, way to reduce inflammation. But not all inflammation is bad inflammation, and if you routinely resort to icy baths, you slow or stop the inflammation's repair process, which recruits various types of immune cells that regulate the activation, expansion and differentiation of muscle stem cells that lead to muscle regeneration.

So chill out sparingly. The same advice applies to anti-inflammatory medications like NSAIDs. Take them only when treating an injury.

Curtain Calls

In Buenos Aires in 1988, a poodle named Cachi fell 13 floors from a high-rise apartment, striking 75-year-old Marta Espina below. Both dog and woman died instantly. Nearby, 46-year-old Edith Sola stopped in the street when she saw the incident and was fatally hit by a bus. An unidentified man who witnessed her death had a heart attack and died on his way to the hospital.

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