Opium has influenced much of the world's most popular literature. The following authors were all opium users, of varying degrees: Lewis Carroll, Charles, Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Oscar Wilde.
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Vaccines cause herd immunity. If the majority of people in a community have been vaccinated against a disease, an unvaccinated person is less likely to get the disease since others are less likely to become sick from it and spread the disease.
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Cyanide works by making the human body unable to use oxygen.
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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
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The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
This painting depicts New Orleans in 1803, when the city was acquired—along with much of the modern
The Masses, a leading Socialist magazine, featured drawings by artists, including John Sloan, as wel