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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).
More than 2,500 barbiturates have been synthesized. At the height of their popularity, about 50 were marketed for human use.
Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
On average, the stomach produces 2 L of hydrochloric acid per day.
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.