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Did you know?
About 60% of newborn infants in the United States are jaundiced; that is, they look yellow. Kernicterus is a form of brain damage caused by excessive jaundice. When babies begin to be affected by excessive jaundice and begin to have brain damage, they become excessively lethargic.
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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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The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.