By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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An average heart beats 100,000 times a day, pumping some 2,000 gallons of blood through its chambers. Over a 70-year life span, that adds up to more than 2.5 billion heartbeats.
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Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
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Only 1% of bacteria cause disease.
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Our Right Lungs takes more air than our left lung.
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All humans have the ability to see ultraviolet light, but it is passively filtered out by the eye's lens. People who undergo surgery to remove the lens can detect ultraviolet light.
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During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.
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The human body contains over a billion miles of DNA.
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