Nitroglycerin is used to alleviate various heart-related conditions, and it is also the chief component of dynamite (but mixed in a solid clay base to stabilize it).
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On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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The first war in which wide-scale use of anesthetics occurred was the Civil War, and 80% of all wounds were in the extremities.
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There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.