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Of the estimated 2 million heroin users in the United States, 600,000–800,000 are considered hardcore addicts. Heroin addiction is considered to be one of the hardest addictions to recover from.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Risperdal, an adult antipsychotic drug, for the symptomatic treatment of irritability in children and adolescents with autism. The approval is the first for the use of a drug to treat behaviors associated with autism in children. These behaviors are included under the general heading of irritability and include aggression, deliberate self-injury, and temper tantrums.
There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.