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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).
In inpatient settings, adverse drug events account for an estimated one in three of all hospital adverse events. They affect approximately 2 million hospital stays every year, and prolong hospital stays by between one and five days.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.
Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.