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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.
More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
There used to be a metric calendar, as well as metric clocks. The metric calendar, or "French Republican Calendar" divided the year into 12 months, but each month was divided into three 10-day weeks. Each day had 10 decimal hours. Each hour had 100 decimal minutes. Due to lack of popularity, the metric clocks and calendars were ended in 1795, three years after they had been first marketed.