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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).

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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.

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Human stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve small pieces of metal such as razor blades or staples.

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Russia has the highest death rate from cardiovascular disease followed by the Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, and Poland.

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There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.

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