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Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
On average, the stomach produces 2 L of hydrochloric acid per day.
More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
Once thought to have neurofibromatosis, Joseph Merrick (also known as "the elephant man") is now, in retrospect, thought by clinical experts to have had Proteus syndrome. This endocrine disease causes continued and abnormal growth of the bones, muscles, skin, and so on and can become completely debilitating with severe deformities occurring anywhere on the body.
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."