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Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
Ether was used widely for surgeries but became less popular because of its flammability and its tendency to cause vomiting. In England, it was quickly replaced by chloroform, but this agent caused many deaths and lost popularity.
There used to be a metric calendar, as well as metric clocks. The metric calendar, or "French Republican Calendar" divided the year into 12 months, but each month was divided into three 10-day weeks. Each day had 10 decimal hours. Each hour had 100 decimal minutes. Due to lack of popularity, the metric clocks and calendars were ended in 1795, three years after they had been first marketed.