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Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
As the western states of America were settled, pioneers often had to drink rancid water from ponds and other sources. This often resulted in chronic diarrhea, causing many cases of dehydration and death that could have been avoided if clean water had been available.
The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.
The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
Interferon was scarce and expensive until 1980, when the interferon gene was inserted into bacteria using recombinant DNA technology, allowing for mass cultivation and purification from bacterial cultures.