On average, the stomach produces 2 L of hydrochloric acid per day.
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People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
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In 1835 it was discovered that a disease of silkworms known as muscardine could be transferred from one silkworm to another, and was caused by a fungus.
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The first successful kidney transplant was performed in 1954 and occurred in Boston. A kidney from an identical twin was transplanted into his dying brother's body and was not rejected because it did not appear foreign to his body.
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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.