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Green tea is able to stop the scent of garlic or onion from causing bad breath.
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).
According to the FDA, adverse drug events harmed or killed approximately 1,200,000 people in the United States in the year 2015.
In 1885, the Lloyd Manufacturing Company of Albany, New York, promoted and sold "Cocaine Toothache Drops" at 15 cents per bottle! In 1914, the Harrison Narcotic Act brought the sale and distribution of this drug under federal control.
Pubic lice (crabs) are usually spread through sexual contact. You cannot catch them by using a public toilet.