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More than 2,500 barbiturates have been synthesized. At the height of their popularity, about 50 were marketed for human use.
According to the FDA, adverse drug events harmed or killed approximately 1,200,000 people in the United States in the year 2015.
On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
People often find it difficult to accept the idea that bacteria can be beneficial and improve health. Lactic acid bacteria are good, and when eaten, these bacteria improve health and increase longevity. These bacteria included in foods such as yogurt.