The shortest mature adult human of whom there is independent evidence was Gul Mohammed in India. In 1990, he was measured in New Delhi and stood 22.5 inches tall.
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Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
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Your heart beats over 36 million times a year.
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About 60% of newborn infants in the United States are jaundiced; that is, they look yellow. Kernicterus is a form of brain damage caused by excessive jaundice. When babies begin to be affected by excessive jaundice and begin to have brain damage, they become excessively lethargic.
The nitrogen cycle. Numbers represent fluxes as 1012 g N per year (data from Schlesinger 1991, after
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In American Progress (1872), John Gast depicts a feminized (and eroticized) America moving westward,
On March 25, 1911, as scores of young factory girls leaped to their deaths from the eighth, ninth, a