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On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
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Throughout history, plants containing cardiac steroids have been used as heart drugs and as poisons (e.g., in arrows used in combat), emetics, and diuretics.
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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 first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
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Certain chemicals, after ingestion, can be converted by the body into cyanide. Most of these chemicals have been removed from the market, but some old nail polish remover, solvents, and plastics manufacturing solutions can contain these substances.