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There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.
On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
Bisphosphonates were first developed in the nineteenth century. They were first investigated for use in disorders of bone metabolism in the 1960s. They are now used clinically for the treatment of osteoporosis, Paget's disease, bone metastasis, multiple myeloma, and other conditions that feature bone fragility.
Eating food that has been cooked with poppy seeds may cause you to fail a drug screening test, because the seeds contain enough opiate alkaloids to register as a positive.

