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More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
Urine turns bright yellow if larger than normal amounts of certain substances are consumed; one of these substances is asparagus.
There used to be a metric calendar, as well as metric clocks. The metric calendar, or "French Republican Calendar" divided the year into 12 months, but each month was divided into three 10-day weeks. Each day had 10 decimal hours. Each hour had 100 decimal minutes. Due to lack of popularity, the metric clocks and calendars were ended in 1795, three years after they had been first marketed.