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Human stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve small pieces of metal such as razor blades or staples.
Pubic lice (crabs) are usually spread through sexual contact. You cannot catch them by using a public toilet.
About 600,000 particles of skin are shed every hour by each human. If you live to age 70 years, you have shed 105 pounds of dead skin.
Once thought to have neurofibromatosis, Joseph Merrick (also known as "the elephant man") is now, in retrospect, thought by clinical experts to have had Proteus syndrome. This endocrine disease causes continued and abnormal growth of the bones, muscles, skin, and so on and can become completely debilitating with severe deformities occurring anywhere on the body.
The horizontal fraction bar was introduced by the Arabs.