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The More You Know

• The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
• There's only one country in the world that doesn't use the metric system.
• The majority of polar bears live in Canada—not in the Arctic.
• During your lifetime, you will spend around seventy-nine days brushing your teeth.