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Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
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In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
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About 80% of major fungal systemic infections are due to Candida albicans. Another form, Candida peritonitis, occurs most often in postoperative patients. A rare disease, Candida meningitis, may follow leukemia, kidney transplant, other immunosuppressed factors, or when suffering from Candida septicemia.
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The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
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The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."