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Human stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve small pieces of metal such as razor blades or staples.
More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").
During the twentieth century, a variant of the metric system was used in Russia and France in which the base unit of mass was the tonne. Instead of kilograms, this system used millitonnes (mt).
The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates’s recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.