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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.
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The average human gut is home to perhaps 500 to 1,000 different species of bacteria.
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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
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Cyanide works by making the human body unable to use oxygen.