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Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.
Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
Less than one of every three adults with high LDL cholesterol has the condition under control. Only 48.1% with the condition are being treated for it.
There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.