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In 1835 it was discovered that a disease of silkworms known as muscardine could be transferred from one silkworm to another, and was caused by a fungus.
Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
According to the FDA, adverse drug events harmed or killed approximately 1,200,000 people in the United States in the year 2015.