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.
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Bacteria have flourished on the earth for over three billion years. They were the first life forms on the planet.
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More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
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Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.
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The ratio of hydrogen atoms to oxygen in water (H2O) is 2:1.