Facts in "Medical" Category
#2569 - Medical Fact     0  In 1990, a 64-year old Hartsville, Tennessee, woman entered a hospital for surgery for what doctors diagnosed as a tumor on her buttocks. What surgeons found, however, was a four-inch pork chop bone, which they removed. They estimated that it had been in place for five to ten years. The woman could not remember sitting on it, or eating it for that matter. |
| #2570 - Medical Fact 1 Americans spend an estimated $500 million each year on allergy treatments. |
| #2571 - Medical Fact 2 Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards. |
| #2572 - Medical Fact 4 By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds. |
| #2573 - Medical Fact 4 One group, the Hunza in Northwest Kashmir, reportedly have not experienced cancer. The group is also said to have unusual longevity. |
| #2574 - Medical Fact 1 In 1918 and 1919, a world epidemic of simple influenza killed 20 million people in the United States and Europe. |
| #2575 - Medical Fact 8 If you lock your knees while standing long enough, you will pass out. |
| #2576 - Medical Fact 1 During a lifetime, one person generates more than 1,000 pounds of red blood cells. |
| #2577 - Medical Fact -1 Scientists have identified more than 300 viruses capable of bringing fatal diseases to insects. The organisms are believed to be entirely different than those that cause disease in humans, and are thus harmless to man. |
| #2578 - Medical Fact 2 Devoid of its cells and proteins, human blood has the same general makeup as sea water. |
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