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On average, the stomach produces 2 L of hydrochloric acid per day.
There are approximately 3 million unintended pregnancies in the United States each year.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
More than one-third of adult Americans are obese. Diseases that kill the largest number of people annually, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke, and hypertension, can be attributed to diet.
Hippocrates noted that blood separates into four differently colored liquids when removed from the body and examined: a pure red liquid mixed with white liquid material with a yellow-colored froth at the top and a black substance that settles underneath; he named these the four humors (for blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile).