Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was originally known as the Communicable Disease Center, which was formed to fight malaria. It was originally headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, since the Southern states faced the worst threat from malaria.
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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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Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
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Never take aspirin without food because it is likely to irritate your stomach. Never give aspirin to children under age 12. Overdoses of aspirin have the potential to cause deafness.
(a) The site of Zhoukoudian outside of Beijing, China, spans several hundred thousand years and (b)
The base of the human cranium is more flexed than the base of the chimpanzee cranium.
In 2008, the U.S. economy suffered a gaping wound as several trillion dollars were ripped out of it.
CT scan of the head shows a massive bleed with a midline shift.