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The heart is located in the center of the chest, with part of it tipped slightly so that it taps against the left side of the chest.
Walt Disney helped combat malaria by making an animated film in 1943 called The Winged Scourge. This short film starred the seven dwarfs and taught children that mosquitos transmit malaria, which is a very bad disease. It advocated the killing of mosquitos to stop the disease.
The ratio of hydrogen atoms to oxygen in water (H2O) is 2:1.
Vampire bats have a natural anticoagulant in their saliva that permits continuous bleeding after they painlessly open a wound with their incisors. This capillary blood does not cause any significant blood loss to their victims.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.