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Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
Green tea is able to stop the scent of garlic or onion from causing bad breath.
There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
To prove that stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria and not by stress, a researcher consumed an entire laboratory beaker full of bacterial culture. After this, he did indeed develop stomach ulcers, and won the Nobel Prize for his discovery.
Nearly all drugs pass into human breast milk. How often a drug is taken influences the amount of drug that will pass into the milk. Medications taken 30 to 60 minutes before breastfeeding are likely to be at peak blood levels when the baby is nursing.