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Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
Green tea is able to stop the scent of garlic or onion from causing bad breath.
If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
Once thought to have neurofibromatosis, Joseph Merrick (also known as "the elephant man") is now, in retrospect, thought by clinical experts to have had Proteus syndrome. This endocrine disease causes continued and abnormal growth of the bones, muscles, skin, and so on and can become completely debilitating with severe deformities occurring anywhere on the body.
Although puberty usually occurs in the early teenage years, the world's youngest parents were two Chinese children who had their first baby when they were 8 and 9 years of age.