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The average adult has about 21 square feet of skin.
Earwax has antimicrobial properties that reduce the viability of bacteria and fungus in the human ear.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
Vampire bats have a natural anticoagulant in their saliva that permits continuous bleeding after they painlessly open a wound with their incisors. This capillary blood does not cause any significant blood loss to their victims.
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).