Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
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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).
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There are more sensory neurons in the tongue than in any other part of the body.
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Today, nearly 8 out of 10 pregnant women living with HIV (about 1.1 million), receive antiretrovirals.
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Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
