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Hippocrates noted that blood separates into four differently colored liquids when removed from the body and examined: a pure red liquid mixed with white liquid material with a yellow-colored froth at the top and a black substance that settles underneath; he named these the four humors (for blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile).
In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
Although puberty usually occurs in the early teenage years, the world's youngest parents were two Chinese children who had their first baby when they were 8 and 9 years of age.
Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.