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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.
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On average, the stomach produces 2 L of hydrochloric acid per day.
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Sperm cells are so tiny that 400 to 500 million (400,000,000–500,000,000) of them fit onto 1 tsp.
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There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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The ratio of hydrogen atoms to oxygen in water (H2O) is 2:1.