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Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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The average adult has about 21 square feet of skin.
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There used to be a metric calendar, as well as metric clocks. The metric calendar, or "French Republican Calendar" divided the year into 12 months, but each month was divided into three 10-day weeks. Each day had 10 decimal hours. Each hour had 100 decimal minutes. Due to lack of popularity, the metric clocks and calendars were ended in 1795, three years after they had been first marketed.
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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."