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The National Institutes of Health have supported research into acupuncture. This has shown that acupuncture significantly reduced pain associated with osteoarthritis of the knee, when used as a complement to conventional therapies.
About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
Although the Roman numeral for the number 4 has always been taught to have been "IV," according to historians, the ancient Romans probably used "IIII" most of the time. This is partially backed up by the fact that early grandfather clocks displayed IIII for the number 4 instead of IV. Early clockmakers apparently thought that the IIII balanced out the VIII (used for the number 8) on the clock face and that it just looked better.
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
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