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The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.
This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
Blood in the urine can be a sign of a kidney stone, glomerulonephritis, or other kidney problems.
Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.
The largest baby ever born weighed more than 23 pounds but died just 11 hours after his birth in 1879. The largest surviving baby was born in October 2009 in Sumatra, Indonesia, and weighed an astounding 19.2 pounds at birth.