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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
The horizontal fraction bar was introduced by the Arabs.
More than 2,500 barbiturates have been synthesized. At the height of their popularity, about 50 were marketed for human use.
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.