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When Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, he called "zero degrees" the lowest temperature he was able to attain with a mixture of ice and salt. For the upper point of his scale, he used 96°, which he measured as normal human body temperature (we know it to be 98.6° today because of more accurate thermometers).
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In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
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The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").
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Everyone has one nostril that is larger than the other.
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It is widely believed that giving a daily oral dose of aspirin to heart attack patients improves their chances of survival because the aspirin blocks the formation of new blood clots.