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Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
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).
Most women experience menopause in their 50s. However, in 1994, an Italian woman gave birth to a baby boy when she was 61 years old.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.