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The immune system needs 9.5 hours of sleep in total darkness to recharge completely.
Drying your hands with a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count on your hands by 45–60%.
The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
A serious new warning has been established for pregnant women against taking ACE inhibitors during pregnancy. In the study, the risk of major birth defects in children whose mothers took ACE inhibitors during the first trimester was nearly three times higher than in children whose mothers didn't take ACE inhibitors. Physicians can prescribe alternative medications for pregnant women who have symptoms of high blood pressure.
It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.

