Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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Critical care patients are twice as likely to receive the wrong medication. Of these errors, 20% are life-threatening, and 42% require additional life-sustaining treatments.
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Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
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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).
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There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.
J. P. Morgan, the financial genius, staved off ruinous competition among steel firms by combining mo
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