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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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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).
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In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
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Stroke kills people from all ethnic backgrounds, but the people at highest risk for fatal strokes are: black men, black women, Asian men, white men, and white women.
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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.