The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
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The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
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The top five reasons that children stay home from school are as follows: colds, stomach flu (gastroenteritis), ear infection (otitis media), pink eye (conjunctivitis), and sore throat.
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The average person is easily confused by the terms pharmaceutics and pharmacology, thinking they are one and the same. Whereas pharmaceutics is the science of preparing and dispensing drugs (otherwise known as the science of pharmacy), pharmacology is the study of medications.
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In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
