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Urine turns bright yellow if larger than normal amounts of certain substances are consumed; one of these substances is asparagus.
There used to be a metric calendar, as well as metric clocks. The metric calendar, or "French Republican Calendar" divided the year into 12 months, but each month was divided into three 10-day weeks. Each day had 10 decimal hours. Each hour had 100 decimal minutes. Due to lack of popularity, the metric clocks and calendars were ended in 1795, three years after they had been first marketed.
In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
Amoebae are the simplest type of protozoans, and are characterized by a feeding and dividing trophozoite stage that moves by temporary extensions called pseudopodia or false feet.
Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.