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Opium has influenced much of the world's most popular literature. The following authors were all opium users, of varying degrees: Lewis Carroll, Charles, Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Oscar Wilde.
There are 20 feet of blood vessels in each square inch of human skin.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
The heart is located in the center of the chest, with part of it tipped slightly so that it taps against the left side of the chest.
Many people have small pouches in their colons that bulge outward through weak spots. Each pouch is called a diverticulum. About 10% of Americans older than age 40 years have diverticulosis, which, when the pouches become infected or inflamed, is called diverticulitis. The main cause of diverticular disease is a low-fiber diet.