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Eating food that has been cooked with poppy seeds may cause you to fail a drug screening test, because the seeds contain enough opiate alkaloids to register as a positive.
The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
Bisphosphonates were first developed in the nineteenth century. They were first investigated for use in disorders of bone metabolism in the 1960s. They are now used clinically for the treatment of osteoporosis, Paget's disease, bone metastasis, multiple myeloma, and other conditions that feature bone fragility.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.