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The average human gut is home to perhaps 500 to 1,000 different species of bacteria.
Vampire bats have a natural anticoagulant in their saliva that permits continuous bleeding after they painlessly open a wound with their incisors. This capillary blood does not cause any significant blood loss to their victims.
Earwax has antimicrobial properties that reduce the viability of bacteria and fungus in the human ear.
Most strokes are caused when blood clots move to a blood vessel in the brain and block blood flow to that area. Thrombolytic therapy can be used to dissolve the clot quickly. If given within 3 hours of the first stroke symptoms, this therapy can help limit stroke damage and disability.
There are 20 feet of blood vessels in each square inch of human skin.