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Your heart beats over 36 million times a year.
It is believed that the Incas used anesthesia. Evidence supports the theory that shamans chewed cocoa leaves and drilled holes into the heads of patients (letting evil spirits escape), spitting into the wounds they made. The mixture of cocaine, saliva, and resin numbed the site enough to allow hours of drilling.
The modern decimal position system was the invention of the Hindus (around 800 AD), involving the placing of numerals to indicate their value (units, tens, hundreds, and so on).
The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.