Portal:Sandbox/Did you know

...that metolazone is a medicine used to treat congestive heart failure and hypertension?
...that there were only 3 steel dams built in the United States, although at one time steel dams were thought to offer many competitive advantages over other types of dams?
...that Nepenthes rajah, the most famous of all pitcher plants, produces traps up to 40 cm in height and has been known to catch prey as large as rats, frogs and lizards?
...that DDT, being one of the world's most infamous toxins, has no ill effects on humans?
...that the Chernobyl disaster, thought by many to have killed hundreds to hundreds of thousands, actually only killed 28 people by acute radiation exposure?