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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.
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On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.
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In 1835 it was discovered that a disease of silkworms known as muscardine could be transferred from one silkworm to another, and was caused by a fungus.
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During the twentieth century, a variant of the metric system was used in Russia and France in which the base unit of mass was the tonne. Instead of kilograms, this system used millitonnes (mt).