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Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
The modern decimal position system was the invention of the Hindus (around 800 AD), involving the placing of numerals to indicate their value (units, tens, hundreds, and so on).
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.