1500+ Weird, Wacky and Fascinating Facts: Amazing Book of Random Knowledge About Movies, History, Science, Superstitions, Animals, Food, Medicine, Inventions, ... (Fun and Fascinat by Jonny Katz

Author:Jonny Katz
Language: eng
Format: azw
Publisher: Old Town Publishing
Published: 2022-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

Pure cocoa can help prevent tooth decay. Naturally occurring chemicals in cocoa beans fight harmful bacteria in the mouth. Just don’t add sugar.

Humans can’t digest grass.

Before ChapStick was invented in the 1880s, people used various products to treat chapped lips, including earwax.

Medical errors are the 6th leading cause of death in the U.S.

Early Pacemakers Had Wall Plugs. Apparently, pacemakers in the 1950s required patients to be hooked up to wall sockets.

Barry Marshall was so strongly convinced that not stress but rather Helicobacter pylori bacteria are the main cause of stomach ulcers that, in 1984, he drank a test tube of the bacteria and developed severe gastritis, which he successfully cured with antibiotics. In 2005, he was awarded the Nobel Prize.

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