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Did you know?
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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Bacteria have flourished on the earth for over three billion years. They were the first life forms on the planet.
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If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
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Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
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In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.

