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According to the CDC, approximately 31.7% of the U.S. population has high low-density lipoprotein (LDL) or "bad cholesterol" levels.
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
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).
More than 2,500 barbiturates have been synthesized. At the height of their popularity, about 50 were marketed for human use.