The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
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Many medications that are used to treat infertility are injected subcutaneously. This is easy to do using the anterior abdomen as the site of injection but avoiding the area directly around the belly button.
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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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Only one in 10 cancer deaths is caused by the primary tumor. The vast majority of cancer mortality is caused by cells breaking away from the main tumor and metastasizing to other parts of the body, such as the brain, bones, or liver.
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The ratio of hydrogen atoms to oxygen in water (H2O) is 2:1.
Brumbies on the Chandler River, Oxley Wild Rivers National Park.
Cheetah at the Maasai Mara National Reserve
Herzog & de Meuron, The Bird's Nest—Beijing National Stadium.