During your menstrual cycle, the lining of your uterus thickens to get ready for pregnancy. Then, during your period, your body sheds the uterus lining along with blood. The amount of blood and fluid lost is usually between 4 and 12 teaspoons each cycle.
8 famous Harvard dropouts not named Gates or Zuckerberg. Matt Damon is one of the more famous Harvard dropouts. (Mental Floss) -- Most people are familiar with the stories of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, who achieved great success as the founders of Microsoft and Facebook, respectively, after dropping out of Harvard. Here are eight other former Harvard students who made out just fine without earning their degrees.
William Parham, College of Law, was the first African-American graduate of the University of Cincinnati in 1874. Research biologist and educator Charles Henry Turner, who received his masterâs in 1892, was the first African American to earn a graduate degree (of any kind) at UC. In 1928, Jennie Davis Porter became the first African-American woman to earn a PhD at UC. She received national acclaim for her educational methods as principal of Cincinnatiâs Stowe School. Lucy Oxley received an MD and became the first African-American graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1935.