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An actual chill pill, which could even be made at home, was used in the late 1800’s to remedy chills associated with a high fever. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/need-a-chill-pill-heres-a-recipe-from-the-19th-century
There is an estimated 5% of the population that has never experienced a headache. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.advil.com/tips-resources/headache/headaches-101
On March 14, 1942, Anne Miller, diagnosed with blood poisoning, was given a tablespoon of penicillin, one half of the entire stockpile of the antibiotic in the whole United States. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://time.com/4250235/penicillin-1942-history/
According to research, up to 50% of the Asian population lack a specific enzyme found in the liver to metabolize alcohol. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3860432/
Studies have shown that removing lead from gasoline is one of the factors that lead to the drop in the violent crime rate in America in the 1990s. Individuals exposed to lead at young ages have numerous conditions and problems with impulse control, all of which may negatively impact decision making and lead to a life of violent crime as they reach adulthood. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis
Dr. Barry J. Marshall proved to the medical community that ulcers weren’t caused by stomach acid by drinking Helicobacter pylori bacterium. He developed stomach ulcers within days, treated them with antibiotics, and went on to win a Nobel Prize. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4934498
Male human beings produce 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times more sperm than females produce eggs. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/32437-why-are-250-million-sperm-cells-released-during-sex.html
Despite Millennials often being seen as a ‘promiscuous’ generation, they have less sexual partners than previous generations and are having less sex than their parents did at the same age. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://time.com/4435058/millennials-virgins-sex/
Leonardo Da Vinci once created a replica of a heart valve by pouring hot wax into an oxen’s heart, making a mold of thin glass from the cast, and then pumping water mixed with seeds through it. He identified vortices which help close the heart valve after each beat. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.rct.uk/collection/919082/the-aortic-valve
In a new study, researchers found that the human nose has roughly 400 scent receptors that can detect at least 1 trillion different odors, far more than the 10,000 previously thought. – WTF Fun Facts
A study found that Botox injections to get rid of frown lines selectively impairs the ability to understand angry and sad sentences. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/were-only-human/does-botox-impair-human-understanding.html
Sport Utility Vehicles or SUVs, with their higher front-end profile, are at least twice as likely as cars to kill pedestrians; higher SUV sales have led to huge increase in pedestrian fatalities in the US during the past decade. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2018/06/28/suvs-killing-americas-pedestrians/646139002/
According to a recent study, researchers found infants who get more hugs and physical contact have more developed brains. – WTF Fun Facts
Dysentery and chronic diarrhea were so prevalent during the American Civil War that there was an honor code among soldiers: you couldn’t shoot a man while he was defecating. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.thecut.com/2016/06/diarrhea-is-the-wartime-enemy-no-one-mentions.html
Pregnant women attract roughly twice as many mosquito bites as non-pregnant people. This is likely because they tend to exhale more carbon dioxide and have a higher body temperature than others. – WTF Fun Facts
According to an Australian study, more people are diagnosed with serious heart conditions, including heart attacks, on Mondays than any other day of the week. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.heartfoundation.org.au/news/heart-attacks-more-likely-on-mondays
Africa has roughly 18 sets of twins per 1000 births. It is the world’s highest rate of twin-births among regions in the developing world. Igbo Ora Town in Nigeria averaged nearly 50 sets per 1000 births when studied in the 1970’s. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://theculturetrip.com/africa/nigeria/articles/this-city-in-nigeria-has-the-highest-rate-of-twins-in-the-world/
Studies show that there are more bacteria cells (~39 trillion microbial cells) than human cells (~30 trillion cells) in our bodies. Even as many as 40 of our human genes are thought to be bacterial in origin. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/how-many-bacteria-cells-outnumber-human-cells-microbiome-science