The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
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The shortest mature adult human of whom there is independent evidence was Gul Mohammed in India. In 1990, he was measured in New Delhi and stood 22.5 inches tall.
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More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
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Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.
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Cyanide works by making the human body unable to use oxygen.
Pocket gophers and ecosystem structure (data from Huntly and Inouye 1988).
Effects of Estradiol and Testosterone on Interfemale Aggression in Rats (Based on data from van de P
Prevalence of Diabetes in the United States Based on Age and Sex Data from the American Diabetes ...
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Data for Calculating Productivity Growth in Erewhon
Survivorship curves. Blue lines are theoretical curves. Red dots are data from field studies.