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When Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, he called "zero degrees" the lowest temperature he was able to attain with a mixture of ice and salt. For the upper point of his scale, he used 96°, which he measured as normal human body temperature (we know it to be 98.6° today because of more accurate thermometers).
There are 20 feet of blood vessels in each square inch of human skin.
Drying your hands with a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count on your hands by 45–60%.
The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
The types of cancer that alpha interferons are used to treat include hairy cell leukemia, melanoma, follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma.