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The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
Drying your hands with a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count on your hands by 45–60%.
Patients who have been on total parenteral nutrition for more than a few days may need to have foods gradually reintroduced to give the digestive tract time to start working again.
Once thought to have neurofibromatosis, Joseph Merrick (also known as "the elephant man") is now, in retrospect, thought by clinical experts to have had Proteus syndrome. This endocrine disease causes continued and abnormal growth of the bones, muscles, skin, and so on and can become completely debilitating with severe deformities occurring anywhere on the body.