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About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
The average human gut is home to perhaps 500 to 1,000 different species of bacteria.
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.
Only 12 hours after an egg cell is fertilized by a sperm cell, the egg cell starts to divide. As it continues to divide, it moves along the fallopian tube toward the uterus at about 1 inch per day.