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Your heart beats over 36 million times a 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 familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
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Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
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Though the United States has largely rejected the metric system, it is used for currency, as in 100 pennies = 1 dollar. Previously, the British currency system was used, with measurements such as 12 pence to the shilling, and 20 shillings to the pound.