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To maintain good kidney function, you should drink at least 3 quarts of water daily. Water dilutes urine and helps prevent concentrations of salts and minerals that can lead to kidney stone formation. Chronic dehydration is a major contributor to the development of kidney stones.
In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
Vampire bats have a natural anticoagulant in their saliva that permits continuous bleeding after they painlessly open a wound with their incisors. This capillary blood does not cause any significant blood loss to their victims.