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In 1864, the first barbiturate (barbituric acid) was synthesized.
It is important to read food labels and choose foods with low cholesterol and saturated trans fat. You should limit saturated fat to no higher than 6% of daily calories.
Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
After a vasectomy, it takes about 12 ejaculations to clear out sperm that were already beyond the blocked area.
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).