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Drying your hands with a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count on your hands by 45–60%.
For about 100 years, scientists thought that peptic ulcers were caused by stress, spicy food, and alcohol. Later, researchers added stomach acid to the list of causes and began treating ulcers with antacids. Now it is known that peptic ulcers are predominantly caused by Helicobacter pylori, a spiral-shaped bacterium that normally exist in the stomach.
Children of people with alcoholism are more inclined to drink alcohol or use hard drugs. In fact, they are 400 times more likely to use hard drugs than those who do not have a family history of alcohol addiction.
Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.