There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.
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About 600,000 particles of skin are shed every hour by each human. If you live to age 70 years, you have shed 105 pounds of dead skin.
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During the twentieth century, a variant of the metric system was used in Russia and France in which the base unit of mass was the tonne. Instead of kilograms, this system used millitonnes (mt).
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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
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Bacteria have flourished on the earth for over three billion years. They were the first life forms on the planet.
