The word vaccine originates from the Latin word for cow - VACCA from which they were first derived from

About 8 million blood cells die in the human body every second and the same number are born each second

Malaria causes or contributes to three million deaths and up to 500 million acute clinical cases a yea

Closing the lid before you flush the toilet prevents fecal matter and germs from covering your bathroom

The swine flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent

Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers that is why it is found in some medicines

The best way to tell if one has bad breath is to lick one s wrist; and smell it when the saliva dries up

The human body is at its lowest ebb between 3-4 AM the most likely time for someone to die in their sleep

The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant

A person s brain burns around 300 calories a day and it burns slightly more calories if a person think hard

As we get older the brain loses almost one gram per year because its nerve cells die and cannot be replaced

A person who suffers from the Pseudobulbar Affect often experiences involuntary fits of laughter and crying

Cortard s Syndrome is a mental disorder in which a person believes that he or she is dead or does not exist

If you suffer from insomnia there is a good chance that your sleep patterns were often disturbed as a child

Kleine-Levin Syndrome is a disorder that causes people to sleep for weeks at a time They wake up only to eat