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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
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Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
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The first war in which wide-scale use of anesthetics occurred was the Civil War, and 80% of all wounds were in the extremities.
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Many people have small pouches in their colons that bulge outward through weak spots. Each pouch is called a diverticulum. About 10% of Americans older than age 40 years have diverticulosis, which, when the pouches become infected or inflamed, is called diverticulitis. The main cause of diverticular disease is a low-fiber diet.