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There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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 women, pharmacodynamic differences include increased sensitivity to (and increased effectiveness of) beta-blockers, opioids, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and typical antipsychotics.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.