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The highest suicide rate in the United States is among people ages 65 years and older. Almost 15% of people in this age group commit suicide every year.
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).
In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
Everyone has one nostril that is larger than the other.
According to the FDA, adverse drug events harmed or killed approximately 1,200,000 people in the United States in the year 2015.