Fact of the Day

Fact of the Day

The first drug that was offered as a water-soluble tablet, was aspirin in 1900.
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There are about 2 million sweat glands in the average human body. Human beings may excrete several liters of sweat in an hour. The average adult loses 540 calories with every liter of sweat.
Life preservers and the lining of aviators' jackets used during World War II were made from fiber found in milkweed pods.
For more info, see: http://www.aap.org/family/tippslip.htm
The nutritional value of squash and pumpkin seeds improves with age. These seeds are among the few foods that increase in nutritional value as they decompose.
For more info, see: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/

We rely on the sun's output remaining steady for our climate to support life on Earth. If the sun's energy output would decreased by one-tenth, the entire Earth would be covered in ice one mile thick; if the sun's energy increased by 30 percent, all life on Earth would be burnt to a cinder.
For more info, see: http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/7/0,5716,72157+1+70325,00.html?query=sun
Alligators and old people have something in common, at least auditorily. They can hear notes only up to 4,000 vibrations a second.
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Fire walking is a religious ceremony practiced in many parts of the world, including the Indian subcontinent, Malaya, Japan, China, Fiji Islands, Tahiti, Society Islands, New Zealand, Mauritius, Bulgaria, and Spain.
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Supercells are similar to other thunderstorms, except they're bigger, stronger, and meaner. While a strong thunderstorm, associated with a passing cold front, may produce a tornado, supercells can produce several tornadoes. One of the things that separates supercells from the "ordinary" thunderstorms is that violent updrafts and downdrafts reinforce each other, which allows a supercell to be sustained for an hour or more.
For more info, see: http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/~doswell/Conference_papers/HYDRO99/Supercell_rain.html
In the 1900 Sears Roebuck company catalog, a piano cost $98.00 - FOB Chicago.
For more info, see: http://www.dmarie.com/timecap/
It takes approximately 190,400 pounds of milk to make 40,000 pounds of butter, or one pound of butter from every 4.76 pounds of milk. For more info, see: http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/8/0,5716,18618+1+18337,00.html?query=butter