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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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More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
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On average, the stomach produces 2 L of hydrochloric acid per day.
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The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
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Sperm cells are so tiny that 400 to 500 million (400,000,000–500,000,000) of them fit onto 1 tsp.