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Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Your heart beats over 36 million times a year.
Asthma-like symptoms were first recorded about 3,500 years ago in Egypt. The first manuscript specifically written about asthma was in the year 1190, describing a condition characterized by sudden breathlessness. The treatments listed in this manuscript include chicken soup, herbs, and sexual abstinence.
Adult head lice are gray, about ? inch long, and often have a tiny dot on their backs. A female can lay between 50 and 150 eggs within the several weeks that she is alive. They feed on human blood.
Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.