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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
There are approximately 3 million unintended pregnancies in the United States each year.
Although the Roman numeral for the number 4 has always been taught to have been "IV," according to historians, the ancient Romans probably used "IIII" most of the time. This is partially backed up by the fact that early grandfather clocks displayed IIII for the number 4 instead of IV. Early clockmakers apparently thought that the IIII balanced out the VIII (used for the number 8) on the clock face and that it just looked better.
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."
The world attempted to deal with Somalia as if it were a real country but painfully learned that Som
A passenger train crosses Stony Creek Bridge in the Rocky Mountains in 1878. Railroads were importan



