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Urine turns bright yellow if larger than normal amounts of certain substances are consumed; one of these substances is asparagus.
In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
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.
Barbituric acid, the base material of barbiturates, was first synthesized in 1863 by Adolph von Bayer. His company later went on to synthesize aspirin for the first time, and Bayer aspirin is still a popular brand today.