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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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Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
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The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.
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The horizontal fraction bar was introduced by the Arabs.