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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).
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.
The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.
The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.
Multiple experimental evidences have confirmed that at the molecular level, cancer is caused by lesions in cellular DNA.