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In 1864, the first barbiturate (barbituric acid) was synthesized.
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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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In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
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It is believed that humans initially contracted crabs from gorillas about 3 million years ago from either sleeping in gorilla nests or eating the apes.