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The immune system needs 9.5 hours of sleep in total darkness to recharge completely.
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).
Drugs are in development that may cure asthma and hay fever once and for all. They target leukotrienes, which are known to cause tightening of the air passages in the lungs and increase mucus productions in nasal passages.
Thyroid conditions may make getting pregnant impossible.
On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.