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More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
Bacteria have flourished on the earth for over three billion years. They were the first life forms on the planet.
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).
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.