Alzheimer's disease affects only about 10% of people older than 65 years of age. Most forms of decreased mental function and dementia are caused by disuse (letting the mind get lazy).
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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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About 3% of all pregnant women will give birth to twins, which is an increase in rate of nearly 60% since the early 1980s.
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Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
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Opium has influenced much of the world's most popular literature. The following authors were all opium users, of varying degrees: Lewis Carroll, Charles, Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Oscar Wilde.
Gorillas are the largest living primates.
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Physical distance versus recombination distance on human male and female chromosome 19