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There used to be a metric calendar, as well as metric clocks. The metric calendar, or "French Republican Calendar" divided the year into 12 months, but each month was divided into three 10-day weeks. Each day had 10 decimal hours. Each hour had 100 decimal minutes. Due to lack of popularity, the metric clocks and calendars were ended in 1795, three years after they had been first marketed.
Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
The most destructive flu epidemic of all times in recorded history occurred in 1918, with approximately 20 million deaths worldwide.