Roman soldiers chewed garlic before battles in the hope that it might give them courage

Tobacco-related illnesses kill 17 Americans each year for every one American who is murdered.

In the United States, roughly 80 percent of all deaths occur in hospitals.

The word "scrabble," as in the board game, means "to grope frantically."

School buses are painted a shade known as National School Bus Chrome Yellow. Some of those buses, however, are painted white on top to help reflect sunlight and keep the vehicles cooler inside.

Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's home run record 13 years after Ruth died. Mark McGwire broke Roger Maris' home run record 13 years after Maris died.

There are billions of neurons in the human body. About half of them are in the brain.

John Wayne's character died in only seven of the 175 movies in which he acted: "Reap the Wild Wind" (1942), "The Fighting Seabees" (1944), "Wake of the Red Witch" (1949), "Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949), "The Alamo" (1960), "The Cowboys" (1972) and "The Shootist" (1976). Some may claim Wayne also died in "The Deceiver" (1931), but that's technically not true. Wayne's character was already dead since he played a corpse in that film.