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The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
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If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
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More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
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As many as 28% of hospitalized patients requiring mechanical ventilators to help them breathe (for more than 48 hours) will develop ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current therapy involves intravenous antibiotics, but new antibiotics that can be inhaled (and more directly treat the infection) are being developed.