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Ether was used widely for surgeries but became less popular because of its flammability and its tendency to cause vomiting. In England, it was quickly replaced by chloroform, but this agent caused many deaths and lost popularity.
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Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
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During the twentieth century, a variant of the metric system was used in Russia and France in which the base unit of mass was the tonne. Instead of kilograms, this system used millitonnes (mt).
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There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.
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The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.