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More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
Drying your hands with a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count on your hands by 45–60%.
The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates's recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
Although puberty usually occurs in the early teenage years, the world's youngest parents were two Chinese children who had their first baby when they were 8 and 9 years of age.
There are more sensory neurons in the tongue than in any other part of the body.