Just a book with some random facts about anything and everything.
(Formerly 'Factastic! - Random Facts')
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#585 Random - 17/04/16
581. The temperature of the water you wash your hands with when you're sick had to be 80° Celsius hot to kill all the bacteria on your hands.
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582. Up to a billion colds occur in the United States alone each year, causing 60 million lost days of school and 50 million lost days of work.
583. Doctors prescribe antibiotics for more than 60% of common colds, even though bacteria isn't responsible for the illness and thus antibiotics are useless in most cases.
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584. More than 200 viruses are responsible for the cold. The most common are called human rhinoviruses (HRV), which cause up to 40% of all colds.
585. Droplets from a sneeze can travel at about 100 miles per hour and can spread a distance of six feet.
586. The actual reason that colds increase in winter is that the lower the humidity, the farther the germs can travel. The dry winter air also dries out the mucous lining in our nasal passages, weakening an important protective barrier.
587. You're more likely to pick up germs from a keypad than a used tissue because droplets of moisture containing cold-causing viruses get neutralized on tissues, fabrics and other soft materials but remain intact on metal and glass.
588. People who do a lot of sport (especially in autumn or winter) are less likely to catch a cold.
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589. Approximately one in five people who die each year (about six million) die as a result of a virus.
590. The word virus is Latin, meaning "poison" or "slime".
