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Pubic lice (crabs) are usually spread through sexual contact. You cannot catch them by using a public toilet.
There are approximately 3 million unintended pregnancies in the United States each year.
As many as 28% of hospitalized patients requiring mechanical ventilators to help them breathe (for more than 48 hours) will develop ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current therapy involves intravenous antibiotics, but new antibiotics that can be inhaled (and more directly treat the infection) are being developed.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.