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Urine turns bright yellow if larger than normal amounts of certain substances are consumed; one of these substances is asparagus.
Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
The average human gut is home to perhaps 500 to 1,000 different species of bacteria.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
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).