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Did you know?
The liver is the only organ that has the ability to regenerate itself after certain types of damage. As much as 25% of the liver can be removed, and it will still regenerate back to its original shape and size. However, the liver cannot regenerate after severe damage caused by alcohol.
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The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.
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This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
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The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
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More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.