There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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Although puberty usually occurs in the early teenage years, the world's youngest parents were two Chinese children who had their first baby when they were 8 and 9 years of age.
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Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
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In 1835 it was discovered that a disease of silkworms known as muscardine could be transferred from one silkworm to another, and was caused by a fungus.
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Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
Mt. Pinatubo A Volcano at a Convergent Plate Boundary
Western boundary currents form where gyres are confined by continents