
The Body by Bill Bryson
Books of Titans Podcast
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You Have 600 Muscles
All of the penicillin made is from a single random cantaloupe that was purchased in Peoria, Illinois at a grocery store. 90% of rare diseases do not have a treatment. You will take 550 million breaths over your lifetime. 80% of us will discover that we have cancer at some point in our lives. For the first time more people globally died from non-communicable diseases like heart failure, stroke and diabetes than from all infectious diseases combined. We are in effect choosing how we shall die, albeit without much reflection or insight.
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