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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
Giardia is one of the most common intestinal parasites worldwide, and infects up to 20% of the world population, mostly in poorer countries with inadequate sanitation. Infections are most common in children, though chronic Giardia is more common in adults.
Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.