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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
There are more sensory neurons in the tongue than in any other part of the body.
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).
The effects of organophosphate poisoning are referred to by using the abbreviations “SLUD” or “SLUDGE,” It stands for: salivation, lacrimation, urination, defecation, GI upset, and emesis.

